Flare ups outside of Los Angeles and New York like the Miami bass boom that spawned 2 Live Crew or the Houston rap breakthrough of The Geto Boys werenвЂ™t granted the necessary oxygen to bring the heat of those cities into the national conversation.

While today we celebrate its myriad forms everywhere from Atlanta to Seoul, for much of the time after its unruly birth in The Bronx this music seemed the sacred property of two very specific urban locales. Throughout its first two decades, people mistook hip-hop for a coastal phenomenon. To pick up the collection, follow this link.400 Degreez by Juvenile is the hip-hop Record Of The Month for Vinyl Me, Please. TheyвЂ™ve all been namechecked throughout history, and getting to extend that knowledge beyond the singles was great.Д¬heck out images of Vinyl Me, PleaseвЂ™s exclusive pressing of JuvenileвЂ™s 400 Degreez album and other related media below. I didnвЂ™t hear the full thing till we picked it, and as a huge Wayne fan, it was awesome to go back and see, with the Hot Boy$ stuff and the Juvenile stuff to see where this branch all started. Michael Penn II, Vinyl Me, Please Staff Writer: IвЂ™ve seen so many memes and been to so many freshman parties that were centered around the big singles coming on, so I heard those. As a younger rap fan, what jumped out at you about it? Michael, you hadnвЂ™t heard this whole album till we full-on picked it. ItвЂ™s a tidy story to tell via records in the span of just a few months, as opposed to trying to do this over a year or something. This might be the way we do this going forward with Classics and Rap & Hip Hop and elsewhere, where we sort of take you on a journey into a labelвЂ™s catalog over the course of a couple months.

Come get it.Д¬ameron Schaefer, Vinyl Me, Please Head of Brand: Yeah, and with doing the three exclusive colors, we felt like it was an opportunity to tell the story of Cash Money over the course of a couple months. This one feels like a really straight-forward release: ItвЂ™s never been on vinyl, and here it is. We got the go ahead on five of the six for sure, and it was then that we realized that 400 Degreez had never been officially released, and we needed to do that as a separate month. We settled on Tha Carter III, Tha Carter II, The Mind of Mannie Fresh, Guerrilla Warfare, 400 Degreez and another one I wonвЂ™t name because if it does happen I donвЂ™t want to spoil it here. We immediately decided we needed to do a Lil Wayne album, but me and Michael also went through the catalog and gave them a list of albums we wanted to do. Record collection club Vinyl Me, Please re-released the classic project for the first time on wax for its members in an exclusive pressing that collectors are sure to enjoy.ДЄndrew Winistorfer, Vinyl Me, Please Head of Editorial and Classics A&R: This project started this summer, when we got sort of tossed the keys to the Cash Money vaults. Juvenilehelped propel Cash Money Records onto the national map with the massive success of his third studio album, 400 Degreez, which recently celebrated its 20th-anniversary last November.