#1: L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae Complicate Your Life With Violence Vinyl LP  (Mello Music Group) (also avail on CD)

#2: Common Let Love Vinyl LP (Loma Vista)
      (also available in Translucent Red Vinyl LP + on CD) 

#3:  Bun B & Statik Selektah  Trillstatik Vinyl LP (Tuff Kong Records)

#4: Ill Bill  Black Metal Vinyl LP (Uncle Howie Records)
       (also available on CD)

#5: Iggy Azalea  In My Defense Vinyl LP (Bad Dreams Records)    (also available on CD)

        Top Ten Vinyl Hip-Hop Releases for 2019 Record Store Day Black Friday




# 1:  Nas Stillmatic 2LP

#2:  Czarface The Odd Czar Against Us  LP

#3:  Various Artists  Delicious Vinyl's Best Kept Secrets / A Slice of Delicious Vinyl: Rare Singles & RMXS LP

#4:  Edan Beauty and the Beat LP

#5:  Naughty by Nature Poverty's Paradise [25th Anniversary] LP

#6:  J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive [Picture Disc] 12” EP



#7:  Cardi B Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1 LP

8: Lizzo   Coconut Oil 12” EP

9: DMX The Smoke Out Festival Presents LP

At this weekend's anticipated 2019 DMC World DJ Championship battle in London, where the new world champion of the prestigious DJ battle will be decided, DJ Throdown will be proudly representing the USA. [Also representing the US, but in the separate Supremacy Battle, will be DJ As-One.] This follows Throdown's impressive win in Denver earlier this month at the 2019 US DMC Finals. That memorably entertaining evening, that acted as both DJ battle and celebration of hip-hop and life, had a bittersweet edge to it since it became an informal heartfelt tribute to beloved hometown DMC champion DJ B*Money whose tragic death had occurred two weeks earlier and whose funeral took place just two days before the September 8th battle at Temple in Denver.

The 2019 DMC World DJ Championship takes place tomorrow, Saturday September 28th at London’s Islington Assembly Hall (tix/info) and will be live streamed via Facebook between 3pm and 11pm (GWT = 5/8 hours ahead of Eestern/Pacific). There among the non battle entertainment will be showcase sets by legendary 5 x DMC World DJ Champion DJ Craze and  3 x DMC UK Champion JFB. Meanwhile national DJ champions will fly in from all over the globe to compete in three different global DJ battles; The DMC World DJ Final, The Battle For World Supremacy and The DMC World DJ Championship - The Eliminations. 

This week the pioneering Bay Area all female Peaches Crew, comprised of multi-talented DJs Umami, Deeandroid, Lady Ryan, Lady Fingaz, ThatGirl and Pony P, will celebrate their ten year anniversary with a party/concert on Friday, September 27th at 7th West in Oakland. At the celebratory event, that will be hosted by Aima the Dreamer, the groundbreaking multi-talented six woman turntablist collective promise performances spinning “open format sets with an emphasis on true school hip-hop and #realdjing: deejaying with skills encompassing turntablism and trick-mixing.”

Peaches was founded back in 2009 by then-bartender Masaye "Mama Peach" who initially formed the crew as a part of a weekly DJ party at the Mission District Skylark Bar where they still hold down Thursdays. Crediting “sisterhood” for their inner crew harmony and decade of longevity, the DJs of Peaches Crew are a true representative cross section of women in today's diverse progressive society. As noted by founding member Masaye, the Peaches Crew’s rich diverse membership incorporates, “mothers, business owners, working women, wives, singles, producers, singers; they are Middle Eastern, Asian, Black, White, Muslim; Straight and LGBTQ. Their parties and mixes celebrate music that unites with a homage to the roots of hip-hop and hip-hop DJ’ing.”