Get On Down proudly present Mecca And The Soul Brother, the critically acclaimed 1992 full-length debut from Pete Rock & CL Smooth. The album is considered as one of the greatest Hip Hop albums of all time.
New York Hip Hop revolutionaries Ced-Gee, Kool Keith, Moe Luv and T.R. Love, known as Ultramagnetic MC's dropped their seminal debut album Critical Beatdown in 1988. Immediately grabbing the attention and pushing the boundaries of hip hop into new horizon
When Queens natives Capone-N-Noreaga dropped their 1997 debut album, The War Report, Hip Hop was in a transition period. A new crop of MCs were coming in, many of the benchmark artist of the late 80s early 90s were focused on getting on mainstream radio.
Pete Rock isn’t the first hip-hop producer to sample jazz, but Mecca and the Soul Brother is first hip-hop album to consistently reflect the fluidity of jazz.