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Rittz: The Life and Times of Jonny Valiant [PA]

CD / Strange Music / 2013-04-30

Tracks: Intro; My Interview; Like I Am; F**k Swag; Wastin Time; Goin In; Always Gon Be; My Clothes (Interlude); Amen; For Real; Sober; Say No More - (featuring Tech N9ne); Switch Lanes - (featuring Mike Posn...
Artists: Rittz

Recording information: Chapman Recording, Lenexa, KS; Ecko Studios, New York, NY; Laneway Studios, Pomona, CA; Mike's House, Hollywood, CA; Slumerican Studios, Nashville, TN; Tree Sound Studios Inc....continue...

Rich Boy: Break the Pot [PA]

1 CD / eOne / 2013-04-09

Tracks: Gangsta - (featuring Roger "Mista Raja" Greene); Break the Pot; Real Muthaf***a - (featuring Roger "Mista Raja" Greene/Maino); She Do It; Monster - (featuring Roger "Mista Raja" Greene); Go Hard - (f...
Artists: Rich Boy

The Mobile, Alabama, native known as Rich Boy just might have the thickest and most distinctive back-country drawl in all of hip-hop. His 2007 self-titled debut on Interscope benefits from the enormou...continue...

Lil Wayne: I Am Not a Human Being II [PA]

1 CD / Universal Republic / 2013-03-26

Tracks: IANAHB; Curtains - (featuring Boo); Days and Days - (featuring 2 Chainz); Gunwalk - (featuring Gudda Gudda); No Worries - (featuring Detail); Back to You; Trigger Finger - (featuring Soulja Boy); Bea...
Artists: Lil Wayne

Recording information: CMR South Studios, Miami, FL; Record Room Studios, Miami, FL; The Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, FL.

Compared to the albums he's released under the name Tha Carter, Lil Way...continue...

Lil Wayne: I Am Not a Human Being II [Deluxe Edition] [PA] [Digipak]

1 CD / Universal Republic / 2013-03-26

Tracks: IANAHB; Curtains - (featuring Boo); Days and Days - (featuring 2 Chainz); Gunwalk - (featuring Gudda Gudda); No Worries - (featuring Detail); Back to You; Trigger Finger - (featuring Soulja Boy); Bea...
Artists: Lil Wayne

Recording information: CMR South Studios, Miami, FL; Record Room Studios, Miami, FL; The Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, FL.

Compared to the albums he's released under the name Tha Carter, Lil Way...continue...

Lil Wayne: I Am Not A Human Being II [Deluxe Edition][Clean] [Digipak]

1 CD / Universal Music / 2013-03-26

Tracks: IANAHB; Curtains - (featuring Boo); Days and Days - (featuring 2 Chainz); Gunwalk - (featuring Gudda Gudda); No Worries - (featuring Detail); Back to You; Trigger Finger Itchin' - (featuring Soulja B...
Artists: Lil Wayne

Recording information: CMR South Studios, Miami, FL; Record Room Studios, Miami, FL; The Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, FL.

Compared to the albums he's released under the name Tha Carter, Lil Way...continue...

Lil Wayne: YMCMB the Motto

CD / Oarfin / 2013-03-26

Artists: Lil Wayne

Lil Wayne: I Am Not A Human Being II [Clean]

1 CD / Universal Republic / 2013-03-26

Tracks: IANAHB; Curtains - (featuring Boo); Days and Days - (featuring 2 Chainz); Gunwalk - (featuring Gudda Gudda); No Worries - (featuring Detail); Back to You; Trigger Finger - (featuring Soulja Boy); Bea...
Artists: Lil Wayne

Recording information: CMR South Studios, Miami, FL; Record Room Studios, Miami, FL; The Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, FL.

Compared to the albums he's released under the name Tha Carter, Lil Way...continue...

Trinidad James: Don't Be S.A.F.E. [PA]

CD / Def Jam (USA) / 2013-02-19

Tracks: Tonk for the Money; Female$ Welcomed; Gold on My MacBook; Team Vacation; One More Molly; All Gold Everything; $neaky v$ $elfi$h; Madden on Gamecube; Givin' No F**k$; $outh$ide - (featuring ForteBowie...
Artists: Trinidad James

Recording information: 882 Studios; Deuce Mobile Studio; Doppler Studios, Atlanta, GA.

Official above-ground releases of mixtapes don't come much more pure than Don't Be S.A.F.E.'s appearance o...continue...

DJ Drama/Lil Wayne: Dedication 2 [PA]

CD / Heat / 2013-01-01

Artists: DJ Drama/Lil Wayne

Philly-born, Atlanta-based DJ Drama soared to the heights of the mixtape world in a lightning flash with his swirling, raw, crunked-out remixes featuring a practically unfathomable cast of rap luminar...continue...

Big Boi: Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumours *

CD / Mercury / 2012-12-18

Tracks: Ascending; Thickets, The - (featuring Sleepy Brown); Apple of My Eye; Objectum Sexuality - (featuring Phantogram); In the A - (featuring Ludacris/T.I.); She Hates Me - (featuring Kid Cudi); CPU - (fe...
Artists: Big Boi

Many of the guest appearances on Big Boi's second solo album -- his third if you count Speakerboxxx -- were not expected. A chance encounter with Phantogram, facilitated by a music identification appl...continue...

Big Boi: Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors [Clean]

CD / Def Jam (USA) / 2012-12-11

Tracks: Ascending; Thickets, The; Apple Of My Eye; Objectum Sexuality; In The A - (featuring T.I.); She Hates Me; CPU; Thom Pettie - (featuring Killer Mike); Mama Told Me; Lines - (featuring A$AP Rocky); Sho...
Artists: Big Boi

Recording information: Mothership Studio, Hollywood, CA; SARM Studios, London, UK; Stankonia Recording, Atlanta, GA.

Illustrators: Justin "Jus10" Huff; Robert Poller.

Photographer: Andre...continue...

Big Boi: Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumours [PA]

CD / Def Jam (USA) / 2012-12-11

Tracks: Ascending; Thickets, The; Apple Of My Eye; Objectum Sexuality; In The A - (featuring T.I.); She Hates Me; CPU; Thom Pettie - (featuring Killer Mike); Mama Told Me; Lines - (featuring A$AP Rocky); Sho...
Artists: Big Boi

Illustrators: Robert "The Barber" Poller; Justin "Jus10" Huff; Robert Poller.

Photographer: Andrew Zaeh.

Many of the guest appearances on Big Boi's second solo album -- his third if you ...continue...

Big Boi: Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors [Deluxe Edition] [PA] [Digipak]

CD / Def Jam (USA) / 2012-12-11

Tracks: Ascending; Thickets, The; Apple Of My Eye; Objectum Sexuality; In The A - (featuring T.I.); She Hates Me; CPU; Thom Pettie - (featuring Killer Mike); Mama Told Me; Lines - (featuring A$AP Rocky); Sho...
Artists: Big Boi

Recording information: Dungeon East, Atlanta, GA; Mothership Studio, Hollywood, CA; Ruby Red Studios, Santa Monica, CA; SARM Studios, London, UK; SmashWorld, London, UK; Sonora Recordiers; Stankonia R...continue...

Paul Wall (Rap): No Sleep Til Houston [PA] *

CD / SMC Recordings / 2012-12-04

Tracks: I'm Real, You Fake - (featuring D Boss/Bun B); Bread on the Menu - (featuring Killa Kyleon); Right Now - (featuring D Boss); 2 Cups - (featuring DJ Michael "5000" Watts); Bad Bitchez - (featuring Sli...
Artists: Paul Wall (Rap)

Recording information: GL Productions, Houston, TX.

Photographers: Sandi Gagne; Bryan Anderson.

After his 2010, Warner Bros effort Heart of a Champion -- an innovative effort for the rap...continue...

Future: Pluto 3D [PA]

CD / Epic (USA) / 2012-11-27

Tracks: Future Is Now, The; You Deserve It; First Class Flights; Jealous; Turn on the Lights; Straight Up; My; Same Damn Time - (remix, featuring Ludacris/Diddy); Neva End [Remix] - (remix, featuring Kelly R...
Artists: Future

Recording information: 11th Street Studio, Atlanta, GA; Boom Boom Room, Burbank, CA; Chalice Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Triangle Sound Studios, Atlanta, GA.

An Atlanta rapper with ties...continue...

Future: Pluto 3D [Clean]

CD / Epic (USA) / 2012-11-27

Tracks: Future Is Now, The; You Deserve It; First Class Flights; Jealous; Turn On The Lights; Straight Up; My; Same Damn Time [Remix] - (remix, featuring Ludacris/Diddy); Neva End [Remix] - (remix, featuring...
Artists: Future

Recording information: 11th Street Studio, Atlanta, GA; Boom Boom Room, Burbank, CA; Triangle Sound Studios, Atlanta, GA.

An Atlanta rapper with ties to OutKast, Future is a true ATLien, mumbli...continue...

Jet Life: Jet World Order, Vol. 2 [PA] *

1 CD / iHipHop / 2012-11-20

Tracks: Intro - (featuring Young Roddy/Trademark Da Skydiver); Welcome - (featuring Young Roddy/Trademark Da Skydiver); No Sleep - (featuring Curren$y/Young Roddy/Trademark Da Skydiver); Never Will - (featur...
Artists: Jet Life

Audio Mixer: Monsta Beatz.

In Curren$y's sequel to his Jet World Order project, New Orleans rappers Trademark da Skydiver and Young Roddy run the show, with the usual kush-filled rhymes about h...continue...

Cunninlynguists: Strange Journey, Vol. 1

CD / MRI Associated Labels / 2012-11-19

Tracks: Departure (Intro); Nothing But Strangeness - (featuring Hilltop Hoods/Looptroop Rockers); Lynguistics [Live in Stockholm]; Move; Inverse - Spark My Soul - (featuring Substantial); Never Come Down (Th...
Artists: Cunninlynguists

Recording information: A Piece of Strange Studios (11/28/2006); Nalen, Stockholm (11/28/2006).

Although it was released through aboveground channels, the Cunninlynguists' 2009 album STRANGE JOU...continue...

DJ Paul (Rap): A Person of Interest [PA] *

CD / Scale-a-Ton / 2012-10-23

Tracks: Under My Control (Intro); I'm Dat Raw; I Can't Take It - (featuring DJ Kayslay); Trap Back Jumpin; If I Want 2; Get 'Em Done; Amnesia; Had ta Eat - (featuring Aaron Williams); All in da Family; Chin ...
Artists: DJ Paul (Rap)

Audio Mixer: Sammy DAmbruoso.

Recording information: Acoustic Productions Studio, Las Vegas, NV; Scale-A-Ton Ent. Studio, Hollywood, CA; We Whit It Studio, Las Vegas, NV.

On his third so...continue...

Z-Ro: Angel Dust [PA] *

CD / Rap-A-Lot / 2012-10-02

Tracks: These Days; These Days; I Just Wanna Say; Truth Is; Dicconu - (featuring Mac T/BG); Love It - (featuring Lil' Flea); Phuq wit Me; Young Ni**a; Time; Heaven; Jaccers Wanna Know; Take My Time - (featur...
Artists: Z-Ro

Audio Mixer: Joshua Moore.

Recording information: King Of The Ghetto Studio, Houston, TX.

Following suit in the Houston rappers' run of drug-titled albums, like on former outings Crack, ...continue...

Devin the Dude: Greatest Hits: Chopped and Screwed

CD / / 2012-09-11

Artists: Devin the Dude

Florida-born but reputation by way of Houston, Devin the Dude has made a name for himself for his unique brand of Dirty South hip-hop--rooted in heavy funk and smooth soul samples and comic lyrics tha...continue...

Trae Tha Truth/Evil Empire: Streets Advocate [PA]

1 CD / Oarfin / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Streets Advocate; Evil Empire Intro; Recession - (featuring Jeezy/Young Jeezy); Swagger Like Us - (featuring Jay-Z/Kanye West/Lil Wayne/T.I.); Evil Empire Skit; So Hot - (featuring DJ Khaled); Grey C...
Artists: Trae Tha Truth/Evil Empire

Mike Jones (Rap): Greatest Hits & Dirty Dubstep Mixes

1 CD / Cleopatra / 2012-07-31

Tracks: Back Then; Next To You; Mr. Jones; Flossin'; Bentleys And Phantoms; So Hot; Back Then [My Blinged Grill Remix] - (remix); Flossin' [G Force Dubstep Remix] - (remix); Next To You [Electro Dubstep Remi...
Artists: Mike Jones (Rap)

Audio Mixers: Jurgen Engler; Chris Lietz.

Recording information: Solar Sound Studio, Atlanta, GA.

Photographer: Michael D....continue...

Lil Wayne: YMCMB the Motto [PA]

CD / Interstate Capital Corp / 2012-07-24

Tracks: Ghoulish (Pusha T Diss); Original - (featuring Mystikal/Birdman); Sasaraf; My Homies Still; Take It To The Head - (featuring Nicki Minaj/Rick Ross/Chris Brown); Faded - (featuring Tyga); Mirror - (fe...
Artists: Lil Wayne

Lil Wyte: Still Doubted? [PA] *

CD / Wyte Music Records / 2012-06-19

Tracks: Intro; I Do It; Stoner Night; Sold My Soul - (featuring Pastor Troy); U Don't Know Me; All Kinds of Drugs - (featuring Lil' Will/Young Buck); Show Some Skin - (featuring Bubba Sparxxx); I'm Going Hom...
Artists: Lil Wyte

Pastor Troy: Outlaw [Explicit] [PA] *

CD / Madd Society / 2012-06-19

Tracks: Last Outlaw, The; It's the Pastor; Shut the Club Down - (featuring Peter the Disciple); I Thought About It; Make 'Em Scream; That Chevy Thang...; Crank Up; When I Was F*cked Up; Turn It Up!!!; I'm Re...
Artists: Pastor Troy

Curren$y: The Stoned Immaculate [Clean]

CD / Warner Bros. / 2012-06-05

Tracks: What It Look Like; Privacy Glass; Armoire - (featuring Young Roddy); Take You There - (featuring Marsha Ambrosius); Showroom; Capitol - (featuring 2 Chainz); No Squares - (featuring Wiz Khalifa); Sun...
Artists: Curren$y

Recording information: Circle House Studios, Miami, FL; Crescent Moon Studios, Miaimi, FL; Humble Monsta Studios, Norfolk, VA; Westlake Recording Studio, West Hollywood, CA; ZAC Recording Studios, Atl...continue...

Curren$y: The Stoned Immaculate [PA]

CD / Warner Bros. / 2012-06-05

Tracks: What It Look Like - (featuring Wale); Privacy Glass; Armoire - (featuring Young Roddy/Trademark); Take You There - (featuring Marsha Ambrosius); Showroom; Capitol - (featuring 2 Chainz); No Squares -...
Artists: Curren$y

Recording information: Circle House Studios, Miami, FL; Crescent Moon Studios, Miami, FL; Humble Monsta Studios, Norfolk, VA; Westlake Recording Studio, West Hollywood, CA; ZAC Recording Studio, Atlan...continue...