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Orange Mound’s mid-90’s dope dealing soundtrack, Lil Ced’s debut. Essential Memphis Rap..
This multiple LP series on Now-Again Records attempts to capture Memphis and its underground rap scene as it began to produce some of the most distinctive music of the ’90s.
This was a unique hip hop strain – visceral and often vicious. It was a local, low-fi, cassette-tape based movement – yet it went on to change the course of rap music.
These albums have never been pressed on vinyl – until now. From Skinny Pimp and Carmike to Gangsta Blac and Shawty Pimp, these albums have been relegated to the proverbial bins of history and bootlegged, with unofficial copies still fetching top dollar on the secondary market. These albums were all licensed directly from their original creators, and come on black vinyl with artist-approved imagery for their first LP iterations.
You can read the story of the Memphis Rap scene in a 12-page, oversized booklet with notes by Torii MacAdams. It captures the story of Memphis rap starting with the city’s founding and ending with an auto supply shop that sold these albums over the counter, with all points in between.
“This is important, to really know the honesty and truth about how far it goes down in Memphis… and who is responsible, and who did things…. Things can be deleted – things that need to known, you feel me? We are reassured of having a purpose, and being a part of this important scene. You know how the game is.” – Gangsta Blac
Tracklist:
1. On That Grind
2. G-Life (ft. 211 & Big Blac)
3. R.I.P. (ft. Shay-D)
4. In Tha Game
5. Dreamin (ft. 211 & Z-Dog)
6. Money Mac Murder (ft. 211 & Big Hill)
7. Playin By Tha Rules
8. Gotta Keep My Head Together (ft. 211, Z-Dog & Terry Sraughter)
9. Ghetto Gangster (ft. 211 & Z-Dog)
10. Big Boy Shit (ft. 211, Z-Dog & Big Hill)
11. No Hate’n (ft. 211, Gangsta Boo & Z-Dog)
12. Wanna Get 2 Know U
13. Snitches-N-Bitches (ft. 211 & Z-Dog)
14. Anticipation Of A Murder (ft. Geto Natives & Blake Franklin)
15. Freestyles (ft. Kingpin Skinny Pimp & Lil Gin)
Credits:
Produced by Lil Ced, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, and Chill Will
Executive Produced by Lil Ced
Licensed by Lil Ced
This Reissue produced by Eothen Alapatt and Torii MacAdams
Original design by Blake Frnaklin for Street Level Graphics
Original Photography by Alfonzo Canady
Recorded and Mixed at GSD and Icy White, Memphis by Skinny Pimp
Original Mastering by Larry Nix
Featuring Willie Triggs on Keyboards and Blake Franklin on Guitar
All songs published by Lil Ced Publishing
Originally issued on Icywhite Records CD IWR-7021 in 1997
Reissue art direction by Errol F. Richardson
Restoration and remastering by Jason Bitner
LP. 2025. NA5253.