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Record Label: Mello Music Group Style: Hip Hop

Style: HipHop

Strictly limited to 500 copies! Includes: Limited edition collaborative Stussy Tee 3 color splatter 2xLP Digital Download Card of entire album Instrumental Cassette 7” single of “Good Morning Neighbor” Serato Sticker Custom Rolling Papers Record Label: Fat Beats Style: Hip Hop

Strictly limited to 500 copies! Includes: Limited edition collaborative Stussy Tee 3 color splatter 2xLP Digital Download Card of entire album Instrumental Cassette 7” single of “Good Morning Neighbor” Serato Sticker Custom Rolling Papers Record Label: Fat Beats Style: Hip Hop

Strictly limited to 500 copies! Includes: Limited edition collaborative Stussy Tee 3 color splatter 2xLP Digital Download Card of entire album Instrumental Cassette 7” single of “Good Morning Neighbor” Serato Sticker Custom Rolling Papers Record Label: Fat Beats Style: Hip Hop

Strictly limited to 500 copies! Includes: Limited edition collaborative Stussy Tee 3 color splatter 2xLP Digital Download Card of entire album Instrumental Cassette 7” single of “Good Morning Neighbor” Serato Sticker Custom Rolling Papers Record Label: Fat Beats Style: Hip Hop

CATS return, the last of the great true school crews-bearers of transformed tradition, innovators par excellence, and heralds of an undying devotion to the science and magic of boom bap music. The latest installment in the TC saga is ,3", their third studio full-length. It plays like a message in a bottle from Hip Hop's timeless present to the bizarre post-physical, digital, viral world in which we live. DJ Natural's production chops have only deepened with time, and the rugged loops of the self-titled "Orange Album" and the live instrumentation of Civil Service have melded to yield a mélange of soul, jazz, funk, roots, radical politics, and a sly refusal to bend to the dictates of current fashion. Kid Knish reprises his role as hip hop's all-time greatest unseen crew member (sorry, Jarobi), serving up samples, historical references, and vinyl oddities for Natural to slice and serve as android slabs of production genius. TC's trio of MCs-Qwel, Denizen Kane, and Qwazaar-rhyme like men breathing from the soles of their feet. The basis of their legend is in full effect-crackling chemistry, unnerving flow, and true stories. The album plays like a jazz-era cutting session turned confessional booth, a stylistically freewheeling effort threaded together by moments of revelation, underpinned by fiercely focused production and dominated by stories of journey, moments of transformation, and warnings against coming catastrophe. For TC, the MC is a misunderstood figure, a musical seer, a minor prophet, and reluctant hustler, using words to outwit enemies, trump circumstances, and emerge from the belly of the beast with respect and rent money. Highlights abound - Kane returning to his spoken word roots on "Denizen Walks Away," Qwel giving his early battle rap classics a run for their money on nickel-plated platters like "My Watch" and "Gordeon Knock," and Qwazaar flexing uncanny musical intuition, anchoring the record with meditative efforts on "Puzzling Thing" and "Reflections from the Porch" before pummeling tracks like "Better Luck" and "On My Square." Although the LP is studded with solo shots, crew tracks are the soul of the record. "On My Square" opens with a flurry of horns before exploding into an array of signature styles-multisyllabic combinations from Qwel, laid-back but incisive chatting from Kane, and a classic Qwa verse full of declarations, threats, and witticisms, all cemented by a Qwel chorus imbued with requisite layers of meaning. Natural's production evolves with each verse, sliding from Meters style guitars with knocking drums to moody keys with ease. The first single, "The Crown" is a frenetic display of jagged guitars and style-shifting that makes it a perfect complement to the Orange Album's classic "Reinventing." The name, however, is something of a misnomer. TC have never been interested in being kings. They've been griots shouting from the village limits, stoning the village idiots, interrupting thieves, and solidifying sterling reputations as rappers' rappers, smokers' smokers, underground Gs, tribal chiefs. There will never be another TYPICAL CATS. They leave the set like five men exiting a burning building, leaving wrecked stages and a catalog of classics in their wake. With their exodus, we find ourselves suddenly grown, having come of age with the culture, standing, as always, at the crossroads. With the music, we move like Gayle Sayers, howl like Magic Sam, see the city like a kid on the project bench, and mark it all down in a black book that will never close. It is what it is. Forever. Record Label: Galapagos 4 Style: Hip Hop

Record Label: Psycho Logical Style: Hip Hop

Record Label: Raid Records Style: Hip Hop

Record Label: Raid Records Style: Hip Hop

Record Label: Plug Research Style: HipHop

Style: Hip Hop

Record Label: Jakarta Style: Hip Hop

Record Label: Nature Sounds Style: Hip Hop

Tom Filepp created his third full-length album We Are All Fire recorded under the name Cars & Trains. The idea was to create a narrative about family--a search for identity and a personal narrative expressed through electroacoustic pop--that pulled in as many members of Filepp's musical family as he could get. You can hear how these songs affect him through his poignant and gently piercing vocal performances. He then balances out the emotion these songs stir up with fluttering downtempo beats, delicate acoustic playing, and the inclusion of strings, horns, and smatterings of electronic noise. ++ The concept of a family is one of those ever-morphing ideas that is constantly growing and contracting as we stumble through life. Sometimes that means joy; far too often, there's a great deal of pain involved. But whether it is the people that raised us, or the friends and loved ones that picked up where the birth family dropped the ball, we have a family we can call our own. It is in this spirit that Tom Filepp created his third full-length album We Are All Fire recorded under the name Cars & Trains. The idea was to create a narrative about family-a search for identity and a personal narrative expressed through electroacoustic pop-that pulled in as many members of Filepp's musical family as he could get. Though you might not be able to pick out their individual contributions, sprinkled throughout the album is the work of fellow Portland musicians like the Future Historians, Alameda, and the Ascetic Junkies, as well as Filepp's labelmates Astronautalis, Rickolus, and Ceschi Ramos. From that foundational idea, Filepp found confidence to explore the darker crevices of his musical psyche. Not with the intention of wallowing in the muck, but to shine some light and clear out the cobwebs, all through the skein of an Odyssey-like narrative that wends in some indelible imagery taken from the natural world. Stars, wind, waves, birds, trees, and, of course, fire all play prominent roles. Like any great songwriter can, Filepp connects the personal and the universal beautifully. You can hear how these songs affect him through his poignant and gently piercing vocal performances. He then balances out the emotion these songs stir up with fluttering downtempo beats, delicate acoustic playing, and the inclusion of strings, horns, and smatterings of electronic noise. We Are All Fire is both a question and an answer. Filepp seeks to find out what family means in our digital age, and finds the connections he was looking for both in his own past and in his present. The key word in the album title is "we," and that includes you too. Record Label: Fake Four Inc. Style: Hip Hop

Record Label: Gl Records Style: HipHop

Record Label: Gl Records Style: HipHop

Record Label: Be Music Group Style: HipHop

Record Label: GL Recordings Style: HipHop

Joe Budden (born August 31, 1980) is an American hip hop artist from Jersey City, New Jersey, who (in addition to being as a solo artist) is in American hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse alongside Royce da 5'9", Joell Ortiz, and Crooked I. He is known for his lyrical and unique abilities and vocabulary, and is considered one of New Jersey most important and influential hip hop artists that raised attention in the music's scene for both Jersey City and New Jersey as a whole. He was formerly signed to major label Def Jam, but left for personal reasons and for them pushing away his album releases. Record Label: Gl Records Style: HipHop