The Story of Memphis Rap, a Now-Again x Vinyl Me, Please release. Nine album box set that follows previous Now-Again Anthologies like The Story of Zamrock and The Story of Tribe Records. The box set is now sold out but key individual LP’s will be issued on Now-Again.

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The Story of Memphis Rap is told through a trunk-rattling nine-album, 11-LP slice of the origins of Memphis Rap, capturing a city and a scene as it began to create the most distinctive rap music of the ’90s. Each of these nine albums has been issued under the guidance and license of its creators, and is the definitive vinyl issue.

Box Set Details:


Heavyweight two-piece slipcase and slash box – first edition limited to 1000 pieces.
Pressed on 180g black vinyl with heavyweight tip-on jackets.
Vinyl Me, Please designed letter-sized booklet with extensive liner notes and newly unearthed photos.

“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

Introducing The Story of Memphis Rap, a trunk-rattling nine-album, 11-LP slice of the origins of Memphis Rap, capturing a city and a scene as it began to create the most distinctive rap music of the ’90s. The Story of Memphis Rap – a collaboration between VMP and Now-Again Records, like previous anthologies The Story of Zamrock, The Story of Tribe Records and The Story of Ghetto Records – collects nine albums that were originally released within Bluff City limits and occasionally to other cities in the region.

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. MORE