Vinyl Me Please Rap & Hip Hop

dhodo said:
Its funny, I think overall the new prices are absurd and I passed on tons of things for $23 in the past. It was very rare that I ever got 2 albums from them a month. And yet, this is the first month I'm considering getting 3 titles. Currently have Szabo and Stankonia and swapped Redman for JLH. I probably would have kept Redman at $23 but don't think I will spin it enough for $33 even though I think it is a good album.

I need to do some more listening to the Szabo before I decide as I wasn't previously familiar. Hardest because I wasn't planning on spending this much.

I think what the new prices have done is only make me consider it worth using add ons for the AAA better pressing plant titles and makes it easier to pass on GZ DMM like Redman. The only alternatives for Szabo are only $2 cheaper and likely not AAA and JLH is a no brainer. If they extend me the bridge offer, I won't need to decide until next month, so we'll see where I'm at then.
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Interesting! I often found myself getting 2-3 albums per month for my monthly sub when the records were announced, whether it was 2 ROTMs or adding on to get a swap. I often swapped even if I wasn't 100% sure on whether I wanted an album or not. I knew that for $23, most of the time, I could get my money back if I wanted to sell it later on. I grabbed albums for friends as well sometimes. That changed a lot in the last 6 months (even before price hikes) because there were less and less things I wanted in swaps. And now with the price hikes, that option has altogether been eliminated for me. There's nothing I would take a punt on for $33 + tax. Even if there were multiple albums per month I wanted, it would be hard to sway me on dropping another $33 on a GZ pressing, especially when a lot of these do not have new remasters or anything and are essentially just new plates from old masters.
 
MikeH said:
Interesting! I often found myself getting 2-3 albums per month for my monthly sub when the records were announced, whether it was 2 ROTMs or adding on to get a swap. I often swapped even if I wasn't 100% sure on whether I wanted an album or not. I knew that for $23, most of the time, I could get my money back if I wanted to sell it later on. I grabbed albums for friends as well sometimes. That changed a lot in the last 6 months (even before price hikes) because there were less and less things I wanted in swaps. And now with the price hikes, that option has altogether been eliminated for me. There's nothing I would take a punt on for $33 + tax. Even if there were multiple albums per month I wanted, it would be hard to sway me on dropping another $33 on a GZ pressing, especially when a lot of these do not have new remasters or anything and are essentially just new plates from old masters.
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A combination of their curation never being a good fit for me and not having much in the way of extra spending money is why I never took chances or got multiples often. I was generally never interested in their DMM stuff unless it was a true exclusive like Noname and Saba, which is why I didn't join until Saba.
 
dhodo said:
A combination of their curation never being a good fit for me and not having much in the way of extra spending money is why I never took chances or got multiples often. I was generally never interested in their DMM stuff unless it was a true exclusive like Noname and Saba, which is why I didn't join until Saba.
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Classics in particular were the ones that I tended to take a gamble on. An AAA soul or jazz record was worth $23 for me even if I hadn't heard the whole thing before. It no longer is at $33 which is AP or MoFi 33rpm prices. I agree that the DMM hip hop stuff has mostly not been worth it for me outside of the true exclusives.
 
Jmcg85 said:
I own 2 copies of Stankonia but being such an Outkast stan ill take a third it looks beautiful 😍 Redman is really what I am so hyped for I've wanted this vinyl for forever and it looks amazing 🙏
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Yeah, Muddy Waters has been a long sought after record for me too. I honestly didn't know that up until now the vinyl that had been available was missing the skits. It's great to know that this version has them, as I would have been quite upset to have bought a previous version and find out that it was missing such an important part of the album.
 
mitchplease said:


If Muddy Waters does indeed have the skits, then that would mean a new master of what is most likely the CD version pressed to vinyl, which means we won't be getting the extended version of Iz He 4 Real that was on the original edition. Might wanna keep your original copy @scotthilk
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I can't believe I've never heard this extended version, but after hearing it I am not a fan of the extended version and I much prefer the original. I loved how hype, sweet and short that song was coming off of the Jurassic Park T-Rex intro and then rolling right into the much funkier Rock Da Spot.
 
walkingdogs said:
Yeah, Muddy Waters has been a long sought after record for me too. I honestly didn't know that up until now the vinyl that had been available was missing the skits. It's great to know that this version has them, as I would have been quite upset to have bought a previous version and find out that it was missing such an important part of the album.
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The skits on a Redman album are part of the experience for me. It can probably be agreed with anyone who says there are too many especially on something like Malpractice for sure but yeah thrilled this release will have them 👌🏼
 
scotthilk said:
www.fatbeats.com

People Under The Stairs - O.S.T. (2xLP - Gatefold)

With a career spanning two decades and 12 releases, LA duo People Under the Stairs bid farewell last year. Their unique self-produced legacy earned them the designation "The Steely Dan of Hip-Hop" and a worldwide fanbase. Now, for the first time ever, they are reissuing long out-of-print, 2002...
www.fatbeats.com www.fatbeats.com
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Hope this means reissues for their other work are coming too
 
scotthilk said:
www.fatbeats.com

People Under The Stairs - O.S.T. (2xLP - Gatefold)

With a career spanning two decades and 12 releases, LA duo People Under the Stairs bid farewell last year. Their unique self-produced legacy earned them the designation "The Steely Dan of Hip-Hop" and a worldwide fanbase. Now, for the first time ever, they are reissuing long out-of-print, 2002...
www.fatbeats.com www.fatbeats.com
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so Dreams and People Under The Stairs are both getting other non-VMP releases now it seems? Are there any differences aside from color? I'm guessing Dreams is a bigger difference because both are black vinyl and non-VMP Dreams may not be AAA.
 
MikeH said:
so Dreams and People Under The Stairs are both getting other non-VMP releases now it seems? Are there any differences aside from color? I'm guessing Dreams is a bigger difference because both are black vinyl and non-VMP Dreams may not be AAA.
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I could be wrong but I don't think there are many classics picks that had identical re issues using the same master and pressing plants. I can't think of any at all. At least not since they went QRP AAA.
 
Mather said:
I could be wrong but I don't think there are many classics picks that had identical re issues using the same master and pressing plants. I can't think of any at all. At least not since they went QRP AAA.
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But I also haven't seen them reissue an album that was just reissued by another label. The recent Dreams reissue came out a few months ago I think. Wonder if the difference is just that it was pressed at QRP? If not, seems weird that they took an album that was just reissued, remastered it and pressed it again. And OST getting a reissue at Fat Beats too seems weird.
 
MikeH said:
But I also haven't seen them reissue an album that was just reissued by another label. The recent Dreams reissue came out a few months ago I think. Wonder if the difference is just that it was pressed at QRP? If not, seems weird that they took an album that was just reissued, remastered it and pressed it again. And OST getting a reissue at Fat Beats too seems weird.
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Yeah Dreams was some obscure European label so that one doesn't surprise me that much, I'm sure it's a different master and pressing plant. But I'm willing to bet that Fat Beats reissue is the exact same master.

EDIT- In fact I just looked and the Dreams pressing that just happened was re-mastered by Martin Bowes so it's definitely not the same plates or master than the VMP
 
Jmcg85 said:
The skits on a Redman album are part of the experience for me. It can probably be agreed with anyone who says there are too many especially on something like Malpractice for sure but yeah thrilled this release will have them 👌🏼
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Sorry to burst your bubble but I wouldn't be so positive that this has the skits. The VMP website lists the skits on the track list but if you watch the video about the record and look closely you can see the skits aren't listed on the track list on the actual record jacket. So...yeah
 
BiggaWhat said:
Sorry to burst your bubble but I wouldn't be so positive that this has the skits. The VMP website lists the skits on the track list but if you watch the video about the record and look closely you can see the skits aren't listed on the track list on the actual record jacket. So...yeah
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Oh shit. Good looking out. Will clarify!
 
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