Jade Record Shoppe
06/12/2021
Bigger and Deffer (abbreviated as BAD on the album cover) is the second studio album by LL Cool J. It features the hit single “I’m Bad”, and the first commercially successful "rap ballad", "I Need Love". It also contains the single "Go Cut Creator Go", which paid homage to his DJ. Other tracks like “Kanday”, “The Do Wop”, “My Rhyme Ain’t Done”, “The Breakthrough”, and “The Bristol Hotel” were also popular with fans, and helped make the album a hip-hop classic. With over two million copies sold in the United States alone,it stands as one of LL Cool J's biggest career albums. Bigger And Deffer dominated the summer of 1987, spending 11 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart while also reaching number 3 on the Billboard 200 pop albums chart.
02/12/2021
Coconut Oil is the debut solo EP by American singer and rapper Lizzo. Lizzo co-wrote each song on the album, while enlisting Ricky Reed, Christian Rich, Dubbel Dutch, and Jesse Shatkin for the album's production. Lyrically, the extended play explores themes of body positivity, self-love, and the journey to those ideals.
30/11/2021
New limited edition vinyl LP pressing of the uber-successful sophomore album from the late great Amy Winehouse.
14/06/2021
Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP pressing. Rapper Common debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar?. With this release, he put the Chicago hip-hop scene on the map. The album was entirely produced by No I.D. (then called Immenslope) and The Twilite Tone, with additional production by The Beatnuts, and includes guest vocals from Immenslope, Miss Jones and Common's then-girlfriend Rayshel.
11/06/2021
Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket.
Understand What Black Is speaks of a revolutionary struggle defined by both race and identity, that has never sounded more relevant. The group secured a legacy with seminal early records that came to be regarded as important influences on early hip hop, helping to pave the way for many socially committed emcees.