Hydra Entertainment
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Hydra Entertainment is a hip hop
record label
specializing in Instrumental hip hop. They are most notable for their Hydra Beats series of instrumental albums by prominent hip hop producers. All of its releases are out of print.
Hip hop group Screwball
also released several records on Hydra.
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
specializing in Instrumental hip hop. They are most notable for their Hydra Beats series of instrumental albums by prominent hip hop producers. All of its releases are out of print.
Hip hop group Screwball
Screwball (group)
Screwball is a New York City hip hop group, with members Hostyle, KL, Blaq Poet, & Solo. Their debut Y2K The Album was released in 2000 on Tommy Boy Records. The album yielded two singles; "H-O-S-T-Y-L-E" and the surprising and virtually unbroadcastable "F.A.Y.B.A.N."...
also released several records on Hydra.
Discography
- Hydra Beats Volume 1 The Unsociables
- Hydra Beats Volume 2 E-Boogie
- Hydra Beats Volume 3 Godfather DonGodfather DonGodfather Don is a New York City hip hop record producer. He was in Cenobites with Kool Keith and The Groove Merchantz with Victor Padilla, The Beatnuts production team. He has been "a creative force within New York City's underground hip-hop scene" since he appeared with debut in...
- Hydra Beats Volume 4 A Kid Called Roots
- Hydra Beats Volume 5Hydra Beats, Vol. 5Hydra Beats, Vol. 5 is an instrumental album by hip hop group and production duo The Beatnuts. It was released on July 7, 1997 by Hydra Entertainment. It is the fifth of 14 instrumental vinyl albums released by Hydra Entertainment. It contains 12 songs, all produced by The Beatnuts...
The BeatnutsThe BeatnutsThe Beatnuts are a New York-based hip hop group and production duo from Queens, New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les. JuJu is Dominican American from Corona and Psycho Les is a Colombian American from Jackson Heights...
, 1997 - Hydra Beats Volume 6 Ghetto Pros
- Hydra Beats Volume 7 Godfather DonGodfather DonGodfather Don is a New York City hip hop record producer. He was in Cenobites with Kool Keith and The Groove Merchantz with Victor Padilla, The Beatnuts production team. He has been "a creative force within New York City's underground hip-hop scene" since he appeared with debut in...
- Hydra Beats Volume 8 Anniversary Compilation
- Hydra Beats Volume 9 A Kid Called Roots
- Hydra Beats Volume 10 Ghetto Pros, 1997
- Hydra Beats Volume 11 Godfather DonGodfather DonGodfather Don is a New York City hip hop record producer. He was in Cenobites with Kool Keith and The Groove Merchantz with Victor Padilla, The Beatnuts production team. He has been "a creative force within New York City's underground hip-hop scene" since he appeared with debut in...
- Hydra Beats Volume 12 Nick Wiz
- Hydra Beats Volume 13 A Kid Called Roots
- Hydra Beats Volume 14 Godfather DonGodfather DonGodfather Don is a New York City hip hop record producer. He was in Cenobites with Kool Keith and The Groove Merchantz with Victor Padilla, The Beatnuts production team. He has been "a creative force within New York City's underground hip-hop scene" since he appeared with debut in...