Sadly after 15 years, one of the greatest urban record shops closes its doors for the final time.
2 Funky Record shop in Leicester is closing after supplying the UK’s finest DJ’s with the heaviest urban music for the past 15 years.
Here are 15 Hip Hop records, a tune from each year the store was open.
All mixed live by myself, Ian ‘Beatmaster’ Wright
Track List:
1997 – Gang starr ‘You Know my skeez’
1998 – BIG L ‘Ebonics’
1999 – Pharoahe Monch Simon says
2000 – De La ‘oooh‘
2001 – Dilated Peoples – ‘Worst come to worst’
2002 – Nore ‘Nothin’
2003 – Jay Z ‘Excuse Me Miss’
2004 – Roots ‘Tipping point’
2005 – Pharrell Williams ‘Can I Have It Like That’
2006 – Ghostface killa ‘Be easy’
2007 – Marco Polo ‘Nostalgia’
2008 – j live – ‘The Upgrade’
2009 – KRS-One & Buckshot ‘OH Really”
2010 – Smiley the ghetto child ‘I’m legend’
2011 – Large Professor & Neek the exotic ‘Toast Tonight’
