Dollar Bill Y’all (Vinyl) - By: Various Artists - Model Number: BGP2317

Description

In 1979, Spring Records released the first hip-hop style rap record ˜King Tim III (Personality Jock)™ by The Fatback Band. The label, initially relegated it to the B-Side, allowed the Sugarhill Gang the breakthrough rap hit with ˜Rapper™s Delight™. Over the next decade, Spring kept dipping their toes in the water, but without any great conviction or mainstream success but were always there to chart hip-hop™s development.
Dollar Bill Y™All� focuses on all the key moments and includes personality jocks like Mr. Magic, street tough rapping, live funk bands and the birth of sampling. This compilation is a detailed compilation looking at Spring Records™ “ and sub-label Posse - long and sometimes troubled relationship with hip- hop™s first decade. Dollar Bill Y™All� shows that, despite their reservations, Spring recorded landmark records by not just King Tim III, but Jimmy Spicer, DJ Hollywood and Ice T (as part of Afrika & The Zulu Kings).
Extended sleeve notes, penned by Dean Rudland, tells the story of how the label could have been a force in the next generation of rap, possibly even signing Gang Starr, if only they had been committed: the Bally Boys single, which now sells for hundreds of pounds, was produced by Donald Dee Bowden who produced Gang Starr™s debut single ˜The Lesson™.

Label
ACE Records

Tracks & Genre

BORDER