The First Priority Music Family: Basement Flavor

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The First Priority Music Family: Basement Flavor
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Compilation album by Various artists
Released December 15, 1988
Recorded 1987–1988
Genre Hip hop
Length48:42
Label First Priority/Atlantic
Producer The King of Chill, Audio Two, Beat Factory, Alliance, Solid Productions
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The First Priority Music Family: Basement Flavor is a hip hop compilation album, released on December 15, 1988, on First Priority/Atlantic Records. [2] "I'm Not Havin' It" by Positive K and MC Lyte peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart in 1989. [3]

Hip hop music music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the late 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, and rhythmic beatboxing. While often used to refer solely to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks. The term Hip hop as used to define the music genre came later, nobody including the African American pioneers who invented the art, the music, the rhymes and the dances in the Bronx, New York in the beginning were calling it Hip hop, in the Bronx people used to call it B-Beat Music that depended also on where in the Bronx you lived.

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology.

First Priority Music (FPM) was an American hip hop record label of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which has diversified and found success in recent years with releases in contemporary R&B and country music genres, among others. A small independent, it formed successful distribution relationships, first with Atlantic Records, and later on with Jive/Zomba. Its most well-known artists from both eras are hip hop acts Audio Two and MC Lyte, and singers Eamon and Jason Downs.

Track listing

No.TitleMusicProducerLength
1."Get on Down"AllianceThe King of Chill3:48
2."Many Styles" Audio Two Audio Two4:55
3."I'm Not Havin' It" Positive K and MC Lyte Audio Two3:29
4."Victory Is Calling" (feat. MC Lyte) Michie Mee and L.A. Luv Beat Factory 5:29
5."Survival of the Fittest"MC LyteThe King of Chill3:58
6."Tramp" (feat. Milk Dee)Positive KAudio Two3:22
7."Peer Pressure"Audio TwoAudio Two4:06
8."On This Mic"Michie Mee and L.A. LuvBeat Factory5:42
9."Kibbles and Bits"AllianceAlliance4:24
10."Impulse on Three" (feat. Barsha)Positive KAudio Two4:35
11."Break the Limits" (feat. See-Que)SoulshockSolid Productions4:54

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