VA – The Rap Sound Of Chicago: Rap Trax #1 Compilation (CD) (1989) (FLAC + 320 kbps)

Released in 1989 in France under the name of The Rap Sound Of Chicago, this compilation can be found as Rap Trax – Volume One in the U.S. and This Is War ! in the U.K. the same year. The tracklistings are in all cases the same: hip house or plain hip hop released on the seminal house label from Chicago, Trax, at the end of the 80’s. None of the artists presented enjoyed a real and proper career, Kool Rock Steady excepted. Trax was well known for ripping off its roster of artists and probably none of them never saw any royalty check from this international exposure. All those tracks were made with a very limited budget probably in shitty little studios but their intensity, their authenticity and their freshness make them still sound pretty relevant today.

Tracklist:

01 Chi-Boyz – Bass
02 M & M – Get Off Your Butt
03 Kool Rock Steady – I’ll Make You Dance
04 K.G.B. – Respect Rap
05 Fat Albert – Fat Albert Rap
06 Faheem – Bitches’n Shacks
07 Chilly, T. – This Is War
08 Melody – Cool Chillin’
09 Dancer – Keep on Trying
10 Bryon Lester – Ain’t It Funky

Download:

FLAC – Wayshare

320 kbps – Wayshare