Now-Again and VMP Present: The Story Of Memphis Rap

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“This is important, to really know the honesty and truth about how far it goes down in Memphis… and who is responsible, and who did things…. Things can be deleted - things that need to be known, you feel me? We are reassured of having a purpose and being a part of this important scene. You know how the game is.
- Gangsta Blac
Introducing ‘The Story of Memphis Rap,’ a trunk-rattling nine-album, 11-LP slice of the origins of Memphis Rap, capturing a city and a scene as it began to create the most distinctive rap music of the ’90s. ‘The Story of Memphis Ra’p - a collaboration between VMP and Now-Again Records, like previous anthologies ‘The Story of Zamrock,’ ‘The Story of Tribe Records’ and ‘The Story of Ghetto Records’ - collects nine albums that were originally released within Bluff City limits and occasionally to other cities in the region.
This was a unique hip-hop strain - visceral and often vicious. It was a local, low-fi, cassette-tape-based movement - yet it went on to change the course of rap music.
These albums have never been pressed on vinyl - until now…From Skinny Pimp and Carmike to Gangsta Blac and Shawty Pimp, these albums have been relegated to the proverbial bins of history and bootlegged, with unofficial copies still fetching top dollar on the secondary market. The albums in this box set were all licensed directly from their original creators, and come on black vinyl with artist-approved imagery for their first LP iterations packaged in a slipcase box.
Albums:
∙ Gimisum Family - Gimisum Family (1993)
∙ Skinny Pimp - Vol. 1 (1993)
∙ Gangsta Blac - Breakin Da Law (1994)
∙ Carmike - Comin' At Yo Ass (1994)
∙ Shawty Pimp & MC Spade - Vol. 2: Gotta Get My Pimp On (1994)
∙ MC Money & Gangsta Gold - Da Hard Ov Frayser (1995)
∙ DJ Zirk - Looken for Tha Chewin (1996)
∙ Lil Ced - Playin' by the Rules (1997)
∙ MC Mack - Chapters of Tha Mack for Life (2000)
“This keeps the legacy rolling and the legacy means everything. It’s your reputation - your name - and you guard it with everything. And this is keeping it out, and alive, in the world…. so that even those that don’t know, but want to know, can find out about what happened. It can be archived. Forever.
- Skinny Pimp

[@ErkillaZ]

Finally. Da Hard Ov Frayser on vinyl. Best memphis album

[@imaneagle9731]

Give the notebooks back egon

[@Riley-sb8wf]

😇 promo sm

[@startervisions]

interestingly enough...half of what hip-hop music is today...is either incidently influenced by this sound...or entirely inspired by it

[@b.kenealy]

Hard