dollar bill y’all - spring records and the first decade of hip hop

SLEEK, NASCENT & GAME-CHANGING UNDERDOG HIP-HOP.

One for the crate-diggers amongst you. This shows the untravelled path of the unsung heroes of Spring Records. An alternative universe, if you will, where Fatback pipped the Sugarhill Gang to the punch and an early home for the legend that would become Ice-T. It's a detailed compilation looking at Spring Records’ – and sub-label Posse - long and sometimes troubled relationship with hip-hop’s first decade. “Dollar Bill Y’All” shows that, despite their reservations, Spring recorded landmark records by not just King Tim III, but Jimmy Spicer, DJ Hollywood and Ice T (as part of Afrika & The Zulu Kings). In 1979, Spring Records released the first hip-hop style rap record ‘King Tim III (Personality Jock)’ by The Fatback Band. The label, initially relegated it to the B-Side, allowed the Sugarhill Gang the breakthrough rap hit with ‘Rapper’s Delight’. Over the next decade, Spring kept dipping their toes in the water, but without any great conviction or mainstream success but were always there to chart hip-hop’s development.