various artists - Rap The Beat

THIS was a good-ass $2 find.

Not that I don't already own multiple copies of every song herein, whether on the original record, another comp, a mixtape, a MP3. But this immediately took Mrs. Ape and I back to our pre-teen year, hiding recordings we shouldn't own under our beds, in the drop ceiling, amongst the Playboy mags and Bic lighters. We both owned this on cassette, purchased at a Sam Goody or Coconuts.

I didn't get this in 1988 when Profile originally released it. I think I probably snagged it in the summer of '91, around the same time I bought "Apocalypse '91" during a trip with my grandparents to Quebec City and got it immediately impounded (there's no other way to describe it), souring a two-week car trip throughout Eastern Canada and the Northeast. But this one lived on in my off-brand Walkman. I can still spit bars on "I Ain't No Joke", rap along with the Beasties on "Fight For Your Right", bump along with beats in "Rebel Without A Pause" and "Pump Up The Volume" that sounded massive my to my 14-year-old ears.

I'm pretty stoked to load this up and listen to it at work over the next few days.

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