Day by Day Entertainment

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Day by Day Entertainment
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Founded1999 (1999)
Founder Percy Carey
Genre Hip hop
Country of originUnited States
LocationNew York City, Los Angeles

Day by Day Entertainment is an independent hip hop record label and record distribution company based in New York City. It was started in 1999 by MF Grimm before his three-year incarceration starting in 2000. [1]

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After a brief hiatus, Day by Day Entertainment was relaunched on August 24, 2009. [2] After several years of relative inactivity the label released new material by MF Grimm and Ayatollah.

Part of the significance of the label's being a taste-maker of underground hip-hop music is its release of The Downfall of Ibliys: A Ghetto Opera of tracks recorded within 24 hours of going to prison, and American Hunger , which is MF Grimm's three-disc volume of new material recorded in 2006. The releases were well received by Pitchfork. [3]

Artists

Former artists

Discography

B-Will & Infinit EVOL

Binkis Recs

Broady Champs

Block McCloud

Cadence

Chops

Count Bass D

Cryptic One

Dub-L

Jeff Spec

John Doe

Kongcrete

Lightheaded

Megalon

MF Grimm

Monsta Island Czars

Mudville

Prophetix

Rob Swift

Rodan

Serengeti

Stronghold

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