Hip Hop
Hip Hop
394 Sealed Hip Hop Cassette Tapes
A collection of 394 sealed cassette tapes spanning over two decades of Hip Hop music.
Lot Closed
July 25, 04:48 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A collection of 387 sealed cassette tapes housed within a wooden cassette case, 24 x 18 x 3 in. (60.96 x 45.72 x 7.62 cm). Each wooden cassette case holds 100 cassettes. This collection also includes 7 sealed multi-cassette albums/singles that cannot fit within the wooden cassette case. Expected wear throughout, multiple stickers, adhesive residue, moderate wear and blemishes to the sealed packaging.
Artists include Tupac Shakur, Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C., Queen Latifah, Lil Wayne, OutKast, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Public Enemy, N.W.A., The Notorious B.I.G., Erik B. & Rakim, Nas, The Wu-Tang Clan, Lil' Kim, De La Soul, L.L. Cool J, Slick Rick, De La Soul, and more.
Complete listing available upon request.
A CURATED COLLECTION OF SEALED CASSETTE TAPES REPRESENTING TWO DECADES OF HIP HOP MUSIC
Jazz enthusiasts know that when it comes to collecting their favorite artist-recorded media, vinyl records are the way to go. For Hip Hop, the cassette is held at the helm of collecting recorded media from this genre. As technology advanced and shifted away from vinyl records to cassette tapes as the main method for documenting auditory media, Hip Hop was right there to reap the benefit and grew right alongside cassettes.
With portability as its main selling point, the cassette tape allowed for Hip Hop to reach more ears and spread rapidly all through New York City and elsewhere. This collection represents an atlas of Hip Hop music from 1982-2002. As a whole, this collection reflects on the replication-friendly nature of cassettes and how Hip Hop found inventive ways to utilize this medium format, from recording early jams to mixtape demos. This collection includes some of the most important albums and singles of the era and brings together an arguably impossible collection to replicate.
The present lot spans twenty years of Hip Hop cassette tapes, with music ranging from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's The Message released in 1982 to Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP released in 2000. Some other notable albums include Licensed to Ill (1986), Illmatic (1994), Doggystyle (1993), Reasonable Doubt (1996), Capital Punishment (1998), Run-D.M.C. (1984), The Ruler's Back (1991), Funkdafied (1994), and Yo! Bum Rush the Show (1987). This collection also includes stand-out singles such as Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994), U.N.I.T.Y. (1993), Hypnotize (1997), Electric Relaxation (1993), She Said (1995), Dear Mama (1995), and Never Seen A Man Cry (1995).