Boombox 2 : early independent hip hop, electro and disco rap 1979-83

"It's all back to the era of fat laces and heavyweight ghettoblasters again. What you'll find on the second instalment in the Boombox series are more out-takes from the early days of hip-hop culture. Culled from various independent releases from 1979 to 1983, when savvy black businessmen started to put rap on wax for the first time, it's the story of what happened when hip-hop's sound and culture moved beyond its roots in the Bronx and began to take off all over the Big Apple. ... Aside from the music, Boombox 2 comes with fantastic back-in-the-day photos by Jamel Shabazz and others, a range of scene-setting flyers, comprehensive sleeve notes and interviews with players such as Peter Brown, Keeling Beckford and Taharqa Aleem".

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"Like the Soul Jazz label's first volume in this series, Boombox 2 compiles old-school rap recordings that are predominantly obscure, in each instance far less well-known than "Rapper's Delight," the first crossover rap hit ... Even the cuts that are nowhere near classic status are significant for the sake of historical context. Furthermore, this is a major service for listeners who lack the means or desire to drop triple figures on an original 12" copy of, say, Terry Lewis & Wild Flower's 13-minute jam "The Peoples Message, Take Two." It's all hip-hop in its earliest, purest form, strictly good-time rhymes over extended (and sometimes swiped) disco-funk grooves".

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