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> Artist: VA <
> Title: Top Shelf 8/8/88 <
> Source: CDDA <
> Genre: Hip-Hop <
> Label: Manhattan Records / Rostrum Records / Phenomenon <
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> Ripdate: Aug-13-2007 <
> Storedate: Jul-15-2007 <
> Quality: VBRkbps 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo <
> Tracks: 15 <
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> Introduction: 17 years ago a small recording studio, TOP <
> SHELF, located in the basement of a brownstone in the <
> East Village section of New York, was looted during the <
> Thompkins Square riots of 1988, displacing the recordings <
> of many soon-to-be Hip Hop stars. The studio had been the <
> meeting place for many rappers, neighborhood kids, and <
> producers that would later be responsible for the <
> greatest period of the Hip Hop age, The Golden Era. A <
> search commenced soon after the recordings were lost, but <
> nothing was ever found. So sought after were the tapes, <
> they soon acheived Holy Grail status amongst Hip Hop <
> circles. Despite years of searching, and dozens of <
> hopeless crusades, the tapes remained lost. No one was <
> quite sure who took them or where they were until now. <
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> After an extensive investigation and search that lasted <
> two years, the recordings have finally been recovered by <
> Fab 5 Freddy and myself (Benjy Grinberg). They were found <
> dozenss of miles from the site of TOP SHELF in an <
> abandoned strage facility in North Jersey [woot! Jersey <
> represent!]. We sought after the lost recordings of TOP <
> SHELF because they were rumored to be among the hottest <
> songs from that era, and we thought it was a tragedy that <
> the world never got to hear them. It turns out that these <
> two-inch tapes are truly a treasure chest-a time capsule <
> of the energy and excitement of 1988 Hip Hop. <
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> 01. Fab 5 Freddy -Intro 01:09 <
> 02. Black Sheep -I'm The One 00:59 <
> 03. Big Daddy Kane -Like That, Y'all 03:45 <
> 04. Biz Markie -My Name Is... 04:22 <
> 05. MC Lyte -Listen Up 03:22 <
> 06. Grand Puba -Let's Go 03:03 <
> 07. Smooth B of Nice and Smooth -I Want My 03:45 <
> Money Back <
> 08. Graig G -Catch A Lyrical Beatdown 02:46 <
> 09. Chubb Rock -Chubb Rocks The Party 03:08 <
> 10. Special Ed -This Mic 02:50 <
> 11. Doug E. Fresh -It Ain't Nothin 03:34 <
> 12. Jungle Brothers -Back In The Jungle 03:12 <
> 13. Just Ice -I Run The Streets 01:33 <
> 14. Melle Mel and Grandmaster Caz -The Battle 05:07 <
> Is On <
> 15. Master Ace -Revolution's 'Bout To Start 04:33 <
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> Total Time: 47:08 min <
> Size: 53,3 MB <
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