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RobTresvant

3 months

We did an all 2004 show for @sohoradio - so much great Rap/R&B music that year! 🔥 Have a listen and let us know how you feel 🙏

Southern Hospitality presents The Regulator Show (19/02/2024)

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RobTresvant

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5 years

‘real hip hop’ people are not experts in hip hop they just remember some stuff from a very narrow window of their life when they cared lol

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Ice Spice DJ with the least demanding tech rider in Wireless history 😂

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okay let’s see what this new viral rapper is all about…

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If Nas is now releasing albums this regularly - can he please finally get round to doing the one with AZ where they just compliment each other’s clothes over 80s soul samples

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RIP Dave - De La Soul mean so much to me and my wife - The Stakes Is High tour was the first concert we went to together - had to get a family photo back when our kids were young

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Heavy D (RIP) did everything possible - rapping, production, new jack swing, dancehall, dance music, records with Michael and Janet - and all of it was authentic - true legend 🙏

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5 months

on a list of records that were massive in the moment but barely get a mention now this has got to be right up there…

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2 years

Rap confession: I have never listened to this album before today

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no one was talking about ‘top tier lyricist’ in 1993 we just thought people were dope and we didn’t separate lyrics and music like all you maniacs today

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Question For those who were there.. In 1993 was Snoop Doggy Dogg considered a top tier lyricist? #HipHop #SnoopDogg

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how many people had their life changed by this record?🔥

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1 year

Let’s be honest these two albums contain some of the best rapping of all time 🔥🔥🔥 Both @pharoahemonch and @Princepo held nothing back - styles upon styles!

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2 years

Wanna know an album that has an absolutely perfect set of pure hip hop beats? This one...

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5 months

I really have kept my records in great condition - wish I’d done the same for myself lol

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7 months

DJ Mark The 45 King RIP 😞 My favourite producer in my formative years - these two albums were the first I ever paid import price for 🙏 I bought ANYTHING with his name on it whether it was a Queen Latifah single or a Stereo MCs remix - didn’t matter - 🐐 of the genre

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2 years

the untouchable run 🔥

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2 years

Let’s be honest there’s not many 12” records as dope as this one - RIP Tame One 🕊

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2 months

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…this is one of the most perfect hip hop albums ever made 🔥 10/10 - no skips as the kids say!

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3 years

first thing you should learn at DJ school is the intense yet still calm ‘mystified look’ at your equipment in order to visually explain to the crowd why it wasn’t your fault that the music cut off

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1 year

okay guys I want your percentage prediction for females at this show?

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7 months

Okay two questions: Who regards this as a classic album run? Which is your favourite?

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11 months

I really feel like rap history has forgotten just how big Cypress Hill were - speaking from a UK perspective ‘Black Sunday’ in particular for a LOT of people into hip hop

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2 years

it’s a very grimy NYC afternoon in the office today with these in the changer 🔥

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7 months

All my hip hop people post your favourite Mark The 45 King jams and remember the joy that he gave us all I’m gonna start - RIP to a true legend

DJ Mark The 45 King feat Latee "Brainstorm"

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3 months

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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11 months

Probably my Top 5 rap-heavy soundtracks of the 90s🔥 I got a 6-CD changer though - so what should be the last soundtrack to include?

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3 years

“with a kick, snare...kicks and hi-hat” Mr. Thing @ UK DMCs (2000) Just blessing the Sunday timeline with one of my fave routines from one of the greatest to ever do it 🙏🏻 (also shout out those UK pressings of the ‘A Tribe Called Quest EP’ in the days before laptops - ha!)

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10 months

never forget LL released this as a single 😂

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4 years

How have I never seen this picture of @REALDJPREMIER wearing a @thecharlatans T-Shirt before? Amazing

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1 year

I will never stop chatting shit on this app until I get justice for this album lol 🔥

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2 years

one more time for the DJs getting other DJs work 🤝

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2 years

King Tee is really the root/connected to a LOT of dope stuff in hip hop

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1 year

Which one did you get back in the day? Green frame or Red frame? #ACTQ #MidnightMarauders

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2 years

woke up this morning and decided to play this album in full for the first time in years - still pretty much 10/10 to me - not a moment I don’t enjoy

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2 months

gotta play one of the best albums still not on streaming - respect to the legend Keith Murray

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2 years

'Controversy' Rap-A-Lot art direction was really something else lol (still one of my most wanted CDs too)

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there are SO many Jodeci promos in the world that even I forget some of the remixes! this one I haven’t played in like 30 years 🤯🤯🤯

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7 months

20 years ago today got married in New York without telling anyone - and 20 years later still the best decision I ever made! On the same trip my wife also met and had a long chat with Q-Tip whilst digging in Sound Library - which to be fair might have been more exciting 😂

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okay this 24 hour YO! MTV Raps channel on Pluto TV is a true gift! anyone who was too young to see them at the time - this is unbelievable! There’s a load I haven’t seen too 👀🤯

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2 months

Only one album to start the day with…RIP Boss 😞 🕊️ The intro to ‘Deeper’ and the way she attacks that verse will forever give me chills 🙏

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2 years

music motivation for the day 🔥 Don’t leave the Mash Out Posse out of your great album run discussions!!!

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5 years

@SeanHackman3 so this is my exact point there’s a a whole generation of people before that who thought that the DMX, Dipset era was too jiggy and commercial - im old ive seen the cycles - any definition of ‘real’ can’t be one era or sound

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2 years

Madlib is in a very small, elite group of producers that you just know will never disappoint you

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1 year

Is this the most difficult to google album in hip hop history? lol

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4 months

he’s still dope - but these are Alan’s best albums

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11 months

the way Willie D says “…I live by the sword” on Mind Playing Tricks On Me is one of my favourite moments in the history of hip hop

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6 months

Schoolly D is in the same realm as Biz Markie, Slick Rick, Ice T, DOOM etc - innovators and true originals that hip hop needs more of - we never waste time critiquing their music we just grateful 🙏

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4 years

everyone trying to remember their soundcloud login 😂 @JoeBudden

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1 year

Who remembers?

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4 years

Souls Of Mischief - ‘93 Til Infinity’ (Live On In Living Color) “Oakland all up in the house” 🙏🏻

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when we talk about album runs we should never forget this one from the legend Biz Markie RIP 🙏 Yes, the first is the undisputed classic but man all of these are so much fun and have timeless beats - Hip Hop in its purest form 🔥

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2 months

Wanna know an early 90s rap album that barely gets a mention but absolutely bangs front to back? This one…🔥🔥🔥

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3 years

here’s an iconic image to make the timeline nostalgic for many reasons

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2 years

50p charity shop banger this afternoon lol

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1 year

here’s a comp that’s not on streaming I know we all had the single - but anyone else like this album? got a few gems I think!

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2 years

just found a photo of myself with a Cash Money chain and a bottle of Hypnotiq - ahhh the early 2000s what a time 😂

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5 months

how to make a middle-aged hip hop fan overwhelmed with nostalgia… …show them this cover

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6 months

what a moment in time 🙏 Queen Latifah featuring De La Soul with Prince Paul on production - it got no better to me as a kid in 1989!

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4 years

Run DMC on Yo! MTV Raps 🔥 ...few clips make me happier than this - Run’s hand gestures during ‘Beats To The Rhyme’ 😂 What a time!

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1 year

🐐 rap voices Snoop, Q-Tip, Too Short, MC Lyte, Milk D, Rakim, Mac Dre, Roxanne Shante, Guru, Jacka, all rappers from Texas, Gangsta Boo, 2Pac, Mac Mall, Wayne, Ladybug Mecca, Brother J, Project Pat, Biggie, Ghostface, Yo-Yo, Schoolly D, Lord Finesse, B.G., Eazy-E, MC Breed

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4 years

the last ten years in Rap and R&B clubbing was epic man - don't let these stay home/real hip hop dingbats tell you different - I'm old and I've been out here every weekend for ever - and the feeling when 'Lifestyle' dropped in a club - mannnnnnn (cont.)

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20 days

RIP Dallas Penn - peak Combat Jack era those two together - podcasts have never been better

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4 months

I tell so many people about Devin and so few listen

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André saying he was influenced by Odd Squad on national TV is so wild to me. Devin the Dude is criminally underrated

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11 months

#iconic

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5 months

every single time they’ve performed Brand New Funk since 1988 to now it’s a 10/10

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Will Smith absolutely slapped last night. Wow

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2 years

What’s the best lead single to a hip hop sophomore album? I reckon ‘So Watcha Sayin’ has a claim...

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3 years

21 years ago I was strolling through Belsize Park in shorts - at least one of these people pictured went on to be a rap legend 🤔😂 #madlib #lootpack

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2 months

only people over a certain age will remember just how big this record was at the time 🔥

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Biz Markie on Westwood’s N-Sign Radio (1989) Whilst we wait for positive news about Biz Markie’s health - let’s take a moment to remember this early TV interview with Tim Westwood Few things make me more nostalgic than this 🙏🏻❤️

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all those people on here who say this stuff like “this is the greatest hip hop album of all time” - if you’re saying it about this? just know I will never disagree with you 🙏🔥

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6 months

I’m a big fan of this album 🔥

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7 months

imagine still managing to make a Sucker MCs routine this exciting - absolute 🔥🔥🔥

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but u don’t hear me tho

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playing an album that I love and one that has aged really well, but I will forever dislike this cover and I’m sure it still taints my view of it slightly 😂

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RIP Biz Markie 😔 One of my all time favourites and a true original - records that reminds me why I love hip hop every time I play them 🙏🏻

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Chubb Rock appreciation tweet

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1 year

this was actually one of the strongest XXL Freshman Class covers - most of these have had great careers

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3 years

all those Snoop albums that people say aren’t great are way more enjoyable than a load of albums people say are great 😂

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10 months

out of all the universally revered golden era albums this one is easily the most overlooked/forgotten and I can never understand why? 🤯 the true definition of a classic album and was one of THE records of ‘88 🔥 #stetsasonic #infullgear

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I feel like this is now a “you had to be there at the time” record - but man this had a moment! 🔥

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2 years

Which 3 album and an EP run you taking?

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4 years

96' Nas passed the "let me ruin this dope verse with one cringy line" baton to Common who ran with it for a minute before passing to J. Cole who made a very successful career out of it

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90s MF Doom to start the day 🙏🏻🔥

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3 months

Best 90s Hip Hop non-album B-Side* (*only rule is they can’t be on any version of the album that the single is from) I’ll start…

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This version is the original track featuring Afrika Baby Bambaataa of the Jungle Brothers. Can be found on the "Can I Kick It" single from 1990.I was surpris...

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Portrait Of A Young De La Soul Fanboy - ‘Stakes Is High Tour’ (1997) 😂 De La Soul doing a signing and performance to a half-empty HMV in a rainy Sheffield Wednesday probably wasn’t a highlight of their career but it was a definite highlight of my life at that point! 🙏🏻

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1 year

this album is so much better than I gave it credit for at the time - beats have aged so well on the whole

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2 years

Done By The Forces Of Nature is the most classic of classic albums that has all but been written out of hip hop history (on here at least)

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1 month

every time I look at this poster it makes me happy

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2 years

out in the suburbs doubling up on the early 90s rap love 🙏

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1 year

When talking 90s R&B the SWV debut can NEVER be left out - this album was red-hot for TWO damn years straight!!! Released in ‘92 and by ‘94 it was STILL hittin with the remix of ‘Anything’ on Above The Rim OST 🤯 Legendary release 🙏

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a classic…twice

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2 years

My 19th Wedding Anniversary today - here’s a picture of my wife alongside some other things I love ❤️

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2 years

post came this morning - finally own this CD 🙏

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11 months

I hold in my hand two very underrated hip hop albums 🔥🔥 #screwball

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5 months

this is honestly my favourite ever Grand Puba solo track and it was only a B-Side 🤯

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1 year

Who else is a fan of early The Jaz (aka Jaz-O)? I like both these albums and the EP with production form Prince Paul, 45 King, Large Professor etc is low key classic to me 🔥

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7 months

new poster about to go up 🔥

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1 year

Who else loves this album like me? I always saw it as a kind of companion piece to the Son Of Bazerk album - and I wish the Juvenile Delinquentz had made a damn album based on the song on here which is just 🔥

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Dec. 11th 2017 - 10 Year Anniversary of the release of @TheKingDream 'Love Hate' - "and if you can't respect that your whole perspective is wack"

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there’s instagram accounts posting multiple 90s/2000s rap albums daily I never even heard of - and I’ve listened to hip hop every day for like 35+ years - these are the true heroes of our hip hop internet - not the ‘pick one’ mafia

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