Swap a CD: 15 Recently Posted CDs in West Coast

Ice Cube - Greatest Hits

Ice Cube — 2013-05-19T23:40:30-05:00

Ice Cube - Death Certificate

Ice Cube — 2013-05-14T11:40:08-05:00

With benefit of hindsight, we now understand that most rappers are indeed earnest, but few intend their words to be taken with the same weight as a heartfelt proclamation by a guitar-strumming folkie. Ice Cube's third solo release, taken the wrong way, is a hateful tract full of misogyny, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and violently prejudicial remarks toward just about every other ethnic group; anyone missed in this skein was an oversight. However, with the exception of some choice words for NWA's former manager, Cube's remarks are best seen as caricatures--well, OK, grotesques--rather than perspectives. His spoken intros and the way in which the songs broke into episodes broadly hinted at Ice Cube's move into film. Years later, it's easier to ignore the hateful spew and admire the formal innovations featured on this recording, which helped make Ice Cube into a multimedia star. --Martin Johnson

The Hit Crew - RHYME SLINGERS

The Hit Crew — 2013-05-09T21:18:27-05:00

EazyE - Gangsta Memorial (Clean)

Eazy-E — 2013-05-09T21:16:35-05:00

Digital Underground - Sons of the P

Digital Underground — 2013-05-04T10:48:04-05:00

Originally Release '91, Second full length album from Oakland Rap group which pays homage to Parliament & Funkadelic. Includes the hit " Kiss You Back" and features special guests 2 Pac & George Clinton .

Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride 2 the Pharcyde

Pharcyde — 2013-05-03T13:58:14-05:00

Like De La Soul's Three Feet High & Rising, the Pharcyde's 1992 debut came at a time when hip-hop was headed in one direction, but the group was going somewhere else entirely. A crew of spunky b-boys armed with a self-deprecating sense of humor, the Pharcyde made an album that was fresh and profoundly honest. "Ya Mama" is a clever array of mother jokes set to cartoonish beats; "On the DL" has each MC unguardedly making self-denigrating confessions (like Fat Lip admitting to masturbating--previously a hip-hop no-no); and "Passin' Me By" is an ode to hopeless crushes on unattainable women. The group's playfulness was also infused with smarts, too, most visibly on "Officer." Recorded around the time of the Rodney King verdict, the song was an indictment of racial profiling--shrouded, of course, in a comic tale that parodied Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos." With animated beats from J-Swift (the West Coast version of Prince Paul) and four distinct rhyming styles, particularly Slim Kid Tre's melodiousness and Fat Lip's nerdiness, this album captures an innocence rarely seen in the music's posturing ways. It's something that this album captures forever. --Joseph Patel

Too hort - What's My Favorite Word?

Too $hort — 2013-04-22T22:34:02-05:00

Too Short - Can't Stay Away

Too Short — 2013-04-22T22:07:53-05:00

No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: TOO SHORT Title: CAN'T STAY AWAY Street Release Date: 07/13/1999

EazyE - Eternal E: Gangsta Memorial Edition

Eazy-E — 2013-04-22T21:57:31-05:00

Dr Dre - The Chronic

Dr Dre — 2013-04-21T08:19:45-05:00

Death Row Records. Digitally remastered and repackaged in jewel box in slipcase. Enhanced portion features the classic video Dre Day. 2001 reissue.

Kurupt - Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey

Kurupt — 2013-04-20T20:21:43-05:00

Japanese edition of Tha Dogg Pound rapper's 2001 album includes one added bonus track 'B****es' (feat. Roscoe, Butch Cassidy).

Xzibit - At the Speed of Life

Xzibit — 2013-04-18T13:41:48-05:00

Guce Lil Wayne - Gucey Wayne

Guce / Lil Wayne — 2013-04-17T05:39:40-05:00

With Lil Wayne out of circulation until November and Guce's solo album not coming out until next year this Bullys Wit Fullys and Young Money collaboration will hold you over for a while. This is the southwest CD of the year with all new tracks featuring Drake, Birdman, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, T-Pain, Soulja Boy and many more!

Digital Underground - Sons of the P

Digital Underground — 2013-04-12T08:52:02-05:00

Bad Azz - Word on Tha Streets

Bad Azz — 2013-04-04T10:14:46-05:00