Vinyl Me Please Rap & Hip Hop

jbspaulding said:
No mention of QA/QC of said rap reissue labels...

pitchfork.com

The Rap Reissue Market Is Booming. Can It Last?

From diversity issues to know-it-all customers, we explore the problems facing rap reissue labels even in this moment of growth.
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“The audience for hip-hop vinyl feels like it’s always growing in a way that the audience for classic rock vinyl isn’t keeping the same pace,” says Andrew Winistorfer,
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That's because the nostalgia is big for it now because 2000s revival (profiting off the fact that people were born and listening to music around this time.. even if the albums had #TheProblem)
major labels monopolizing production capacity; navigating a shipping landscape marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, heat waves, and geopolitical issues like Brexit; and reckoning with the effects of structural racism on marketing campaigns and label ownership.
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Late stage capitalism ruins everything
VMP’s Winistorfer admits the company has had a similar issue “once or twice,” declining to get into specifics. “We learned in our earlier days when the label wasn’t as communicative with the artist as we assumed they would be that [it needs to be] something that we really push for on our side,”
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What label did this, I'm guessing de la soul could have been, maybe TI because we never got those bonus exclusives of trap muzik

It’s not uncommon for one buyer to rave that their copy sounds fantastic and another to complain that the same release is “noisy” vinyl stricken with minor scuffs and flaws.
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Gz overworking both customers and the stampers

Also do many articles that are saying "is vinyl dying" or that is having a disaster, maybe this pandemic finally brought the fact that neoliberalism is meant to accept that everything is the same and can not handle any major change
 
Jmcg85 said:
It arrived today won't be able to spin till tmrw probably. Heavy sibilance is it? Throughout or certain sides?
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Not really sibilance. Side A kicks off with some right channel static/crackle to varying length and severity. Mine is present and runs through all of “Bring Da Ruckus” but thankfully mine isn’t super noticeable unless I am listening for it; the actual music tends to drowned it out. Some vinyl videos I have seen have been way worse. @Selaws posted a clip of his and it was really bad.
 
Jmcg85 said:
It arrived today won't be able to spin till tmrw probably. Heavy sibilance is it? Throughout or certain sides?
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Side A on Wu had heavy distortion on the low end. It just got worse as it played until it just starting skipping. Second disc sounded good. It sucks cause there was only a little bit of the GfizzZ at the beginning of Side A. PE seemed good but that was just me skipping thru checking for noise. Going listen fully this weekend so hopefully no more issues.
 
duke86fan said:
Why is clipse green?

Doesn't fit the album

Like.. red vinyl would have worked
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Assuming it's pressed at GZ like most of their RHH records of their are, they probably are just trying to save money by reusing the color that they used for ATLiens and will be using for Rza. I think even the RZA color option is lazy. There's so many colors on the Rza cover that could have led to something really cool, alas.

They may also be facing supply constraints or production issues like the whole industry is and chose to take the easy route since they had supply of that color already.
 
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NewsFedora said:
RHH track is opened up again.

I added it and immediately swapped for credit, just to avoid any potential hassle signing up for Clipse next month.
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It appears you can add RHH but you can't change your primary track to RHH yet. I emailed CS to see what they could do for me.
 
walkingdogs said:
It appears you can add RHH but you can't change your primary track to RHH yet. I emailed CS to see what they could do for me.
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Yeah I considered doing that, but given that my primary is Classics I figured it'd be safe just to have them both, based on the way things have been going in both tracks in recent months.
 
Public Enemy replacement report: surface noise is still there at the beginning of Side A, but goes away a few seconds into the first song. Not ideal, but a vast improvement over my first copy where it was much louder and pretty much was there through the majority of the side. I still gotta listen through everything else (I actually never listened to Side C/D of my first copy since I knew right away I'd need a replacement) but I'm hopeful that I have enough to put together a listenable copy.
 
I actually really regret swapping out my Three 6 Mafia for Emmylou Harris! I realise I prefer When The Smoke Clears much more, and that it's an album that has a lot of really good bangers on there! I really hope Three 6 Mafia's When The Smoke Clears comes back in stock or is able to be swapped for next month! It's actually a great R&HH ROTM pick!
 
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