Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Lyrical Prophecy - You Can't Swing This (12") [San Jose, CA]

Very 1st vinyl release from Peanut Butter Wolf!

Lyrical Prophecy - You Can't Swing This
Label: Poetical Movement Records
Year Released: 1990


"while still in college, I put out my first record ("You Can't Swing This" by Lyrical Prophecy) with a label called PMR Records. It was run by Kim Collett, who DJed with me at the local radio station (KSJS). I got my dad to pitch in $500 to get the thing released, making me a part owner in the label. We only pressed 500 copies, never mastered it, cut and pasted the artwork, and didn't even know you could sell them to a distributor. We gave some copies away to our friends and family and local radio stations and sold some to the local stores. After all that, we still had about half of the records leftover. But our goal was to make a record and we had reached it! We were local heros. Who would ever think a group from San Jose, California could put out their own hip hop record?" - Peanut Butter Wolf (www.stonesthrow.com)

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