![]() ![]() If you got any records from these places released between the mid-'80s and -'90s, chances are a solid percentage of them are tapes. There existed markets where tapes were the dominant format for rap music, sometimes well into the nineties. And I'm not so much talking about the homemade and handed down mixtapes and show tapings that helped spread hip-hop to all four corners of the world, but about legit tape releases. ![]() Little did I realize back then that another medium was just as crucial to hip-hop as old fashioned vinyl and handy CD's. I personally switched to compact discs when I realized not every album I wanted would see a vinyl release. If you cared about covers, about A and B sides, about direct access to any part of the record, if you knew what the DJ historically meant to hip-hop, if you believed digital was inferior to analog, if you appreciated the art of scratching, then you bought wax. For years the vinyl record has been hailed as hip-hop's most precious raw material. ** RapReviews "Back to the Lab" series ** Eightball & MJG :: Lyrics of a Pimp :: On the Strength Records
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