Thug Life / 2pac - Thug Life: Volume 1 - VINYL LP

The Blueprint is the sixth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released September 11, 2001 (the day of the New York City attack) on Roc-A-Fella Records in the United States. It's was set a week earlier than initially planned in order to combat bootlegging. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2001 at Manhattan Center Studios and Baseline Studios in New York City. Contrasting the radio-friendly sound of Jay-Z's previous work, The Blueprint features soul-based sampling and production handled primarily by Kanye West and Just Blaze. At the time of it's recording, Jay-Z was awaiting two criminal trials, one for gun possession and another for assault, and had become one of hip hop's most dissed artists, receiving insults from rappers such as Nas, Prodigy, and Jadakiss. The album is also famous for both it's producers Kanye West and Just Blaze's breakout as a major producer. Kanye West produced 4 of the 13 tracks on the album, including the song InchIzzo (H.O.V.A.)Inch and the controversial track which included diss lyrics aimed at rappers Nas and Prodigy, InchTakeoverInch while Just Blaze produced 3 tracks including InchGirls, Girls, GirlsInch, InchSong CryInch, and InchU Don't KnowInch, in addition produced the hidden bonus track InchBreathe Easy (Lyrical Exercise)Inch. Upon it's , this album received critical acclaim, praising Jay-Z's lyricism and the production especially to Just Blaze and Kanye West, and is considered as one of Jay-Z's best albums and has been labeled as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. Album Tracks 1. Ruler's Back 2. Takeover 3. Izzo (H.O.V.A.) 4. Girls, Girls, Girls 1. Jigga That N!#*A 2. U Don't Know 3. Hola' Hovito 4. Heart of the City (Ain't No Love) 1. Never Change 2. Song Cry 3. All I Need 4. Renagade - Eminem, Jay-Z 1. Blueprint (Momma Loves Me)

Kelly Clarkson - When Christmas Comes Around... Again (DELUXE VERSION), the ninth studio album from GRAMMY-winning global superstar Kelly Clarkson, features a mix of new original songs and Christmas classics, alongside show-stopping collaborations with Ariana Grande (InchSanta, Can't You Hear MeInch), Chris Stapleton(InchGlowInch) & Brett Eldredge (2020's hit single InchUnder The MistletoeInch). The 16-track collection explores a wide range of holiday emotions and experiences anchored by Clarkson's incomparable vocal prowess, marking her latest album since 2017's Meaning of Life and her second holiday offering following 2013's Wrapped In Red. Album Tracks 1. You for Christmas 2. Sleigh Ride 3. Merry Christmas Baby 4. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 5. Christmas Isn't Cancelled (Just You) 6. Merry Christmas to the One I Used to Know 7. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree 8. Glow (Feat. Chris Stapleton) 9. Santa Baby 10. Santa, Can't You Hear Me (Feat. Ariana Grande) 11. Last Christmas 12. Jingle Bell Rock 13. Blessed 14. Christmas Come Early 15. Under the Mistletoe (Feat. Brett Eldredge) 16. All I Want for Christmas 17. Christmas Eve

January 1981 found Gudrun Gut and Bettina Koster in Christopher Franke's Berlin-Spandau Studio recording their first Malaria! EP (Zensor Records). Christine Hahn of The Static with Glenn Branca and Barbara Ess, joined in from New York, and Manon P. Duursma fresh from Nina Hagen's O.U.T. project, and Susanne Kuhnke completed the line-up. Malaria! Started touring intensively soon after the of their 12Inch, commencing with a concert with New Order at Brussel's Ancienne Belgique, and going on from there to concerts with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Birthday Party, The Slits, The AuPairs, Raincoats, Nina Hagen, John Cale, and Einstürzende Neubauten. They played venues as diverse as the Mudd Club, Peppermint Lounge and Studio 54 in New York, the Documenta in Kassel, the Bat Cave in London, Les Bains Douche in Paris, Milky Way and Paradiso in Amsterdam, ICA in London, the Piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and Markthalle in Hamburg and naturally, again and again, at the SO36 in Berlin. While touring, Malaria! #used their time off to record in Studios in New York, London, Brussels, New Orleans, and in Berlin - How Do You Like My New Dog? 7Inch (1981), Weisses Wasser 12Inch (1982), New York Passage 12Inch (1982), Revisited cassette (1983), and the Emotion album (1982). At the BBC studios in London, Maida Vale, Malaria! #recorded a John Peel Session. Malaria! #took a break in 1984 - Bettina and Christine re-located to New York, and Gudrun and Manon stayed in Berlin to form Matador with Beate Bartel, but not before they recorded their mini-album, Beat The Distance (1985). In 1992 Gudrun, Bettina, Christine, and Manon met up in New Orleans with Jim Thirlwell (Foetus) to record Elation 12Inch. Elation was followed by Cheerio (1993), which again was recorded in Berlin. Chicks on Speed did their own version of Malaria!'s song, InchKaltes Klares WasserInch in 2001, and the remix