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VMP ANTHOLOGY

I Need a Beat: 40 Years of Def Jam Recordings

Há quarenta anos, a Def Jam Recordings foi fundada em um quarto de dormitório no campus da NYU. Essa ambição de estudante teria repercussões profundas na história da música, cujos ecos ainda são sentidos e continuam a reverberar. Isso ajudou a levar o hip-hop de uma cena underground de NYC para se tornar a forma dominante de música pop em todo o mundo.
Para celebrar o aniversário da gravadora, a VMP se uniu à DJR no I Need a Beat: 40 Years of Def Jam Recordings, uma caixa com 5 álbuns e 9 LPs que conta pedaços da história da Def Jam Recordings, oferecendo vislumbres da gravadora enquanto ela passava de um quarto de dormitório para uma sala de reuniões e para quase todos os cômodos da terra.
Limitado a 750 unidades, nunca será reeditado. Adquira agora este pedaço da história da Def Jam Recordings.

NOTE: Please purchase this product individually, as it cannot be combined with other products in our store.

Orders are expected to ship in December 2024. Timeline is subject to change. We will notify you of any shipping updates.



A story told through five albums, featuring rappers who contributed to the Def Jam Recordings story in ways small and big.

The goal with this box was not to try to capture the full scope of Def Jam Recordings 40 years; hip-hop has evolved something like ten times during the label’s lifetime. Instead, we wanted to focus on albums that captured snapshots of the label through its upheavals, high points, and transitions. It covers the label’s emergence from its NYC-centric boom-bap heyday with some of its earliest stars (EPMD and Public Enemy). It continues with the label turning its eyes southward (Scarface) while launching the best New York rapper of this century (Cam’ron), ending with the label’s best young MC on top of his game (Vince Staples).

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Andrew Winistorfer, I Need a Beat Executive Producer and VMP Senior Director of Music & Editorial

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VMP Anthology goes beyond the five albums included in your box. Alongside your box and the albums within it, we provide in-depth, original Listening Notes. Featuring an introduction by Jeff Weiss and contributions from Jaelani Turner-Williams, Michael Penn II, and Dylan Green, the booklet will serve as a guide through these albums. VMP Anthology isn’t just a box set that’s supposed to gather dust on your shelves — it’s an immersive and transformative story that comes alive for you to spend weeks (or longer!) inside of. We can’t wait for you to dive deeper into Def Jam Recordings’ history and the albums in this box.

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EPMD
Business As Usual (1990)
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Public Enemy
Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black (1991)
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Cam'ron
Come Home With Me (2002)
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Scarface
The Fix (2002)
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Vince Staples
Big Fish Theory (2017)

What's Included

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Vinil Colorido Exclusivo
Esta Antologia VMP é estritamente limitada a 750 unidades de vinil colorido exclusivo. Os cinco álbuns foram remasterizados por Cicely Balston na Alchemy Mastering.
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Quatro Escritores de Música Hip-Hop Conectam
Leia a história desses cinco álbuns em um livrinho de 20 páginas com notas de audição e fotos, com uma introdução de Jeff Weiss e mini-ensaios sobre os álbuns de Jaelani Turner-Williams, Michael Penn II e Dylan Green.
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Caixa Comemorativa Premium
Desenhado internamente na VMP, esses discos são acomodados em uma luxuosa capa de deslizamento, inspirada nas origens do hip-hop. Vai ficar ótimo em qualquer prateleira que tenha coragem de abrigá-lo.
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Como o áudio foi obtido?

Os lacs de todos os álbuns foram cortados a partir das mais altas qualidades de fontes digitais disponíveis por Cicely Balston na Alchemy Mastering.

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Notas de Audição

Obtenha a história completa da Def Jam Recordings através do nosso livreto de Notas de Audição. O livreto encontrado na sua caixa cobre a história da Def Jam Recordings desde a sua criação até a era moderna através de um painel de quatro escritores de música.

FAQs

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VMP Anthology is the vinyl box set, reinvented. It aims to use music to tell a story, and gives space for lots of listening, learning, and conversation along the way.
Nope! We built VMP Anthology as a way for all fans to experience music more deeply, and VMP membership is not required.
Domestic Shipping is free — International orders will have shipping calculated at checkout. Records will be sent in one shipment. Orders are expected to ship in December 2024. Timeline is subject to change. We will notify you of any shipping updates.
Afterpay is an interest-free financing option that allows you to make four bi-weekly (every two weeks) installment payments rather than one upfront payment. If you choose Afterpay at checkout, you will be redirected to the Afterpay site to create an account and to complete your payment. You won’t be charged any interest or fees, as long as your payments are made on time. At this time, Afterpay is only available for customers in the United States.
VMP started as a record of the month club in 2013 and has expanded into an online record store and magazine.
To get the Member Price, you must be an active VMP Member for our monthly record subscription (and make sure you are logged in).
Yes, shipping is available in 22 countries in addition to the U.S. (view all FAQs for more details). Due to the box value and carrier constraints, international customers are responsible for customs and duties. When shipping to a country that is subject to VAT, this will also be due upon receipt.

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