Ichiban Records
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Ichiban Records was a hip hop record label founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1985. Wrap Records and Nastymix Records were some of its subsidiary labels. Urgent! Records was distributed by Ichiban. Most of its discography is now out of print.[1] Besides hip hop groups, Ichiban also released albums by older, well-respected musicians such as Roy Ayers and Raful Neal. The catalog is now controlled by EMI, but nothing was ever reissued after the label ceased operations.
The label's name "ichi-ban", is Japanese for "number one" or "first one", an expression commonly used in Japan to mean, "the best."
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[edit] Artists
[edit] Hip hop
- A.W.O.L.
- Detroit's Most Wanted
- DFC
- Father Dom
- Gangsta Pat
- Ghetto Mafia
- Hard Boyz
- Insane Poetry
- Kilo Ali
- K-Nock
- MC Brains
- MC Breed
- Rodney O & Joe Cooley
- Sir Mix-a-Lot
- Kid Sensation
- Success-n-Effect
- Vanilla Ice
- K-Stone
[edit] Pop/rock/blues
- The Fleshtones
- Deadeye Dick
- Matt Kendrick
- Barbara Lynn
- Phunk Junkeez
- Raful Neal
- Roy Ayers (released two albums Drive and Wake Up)
- Chick Willis
- Miisa
- Buster Benton
- Gary B.B. Coleman
[edit] Soul acts
- Clarence Carter
- The Three Degrees (released 1 album And Holding... with members Valerie Holiday, Helen Scott and Victoria Wallace)
- Millie Jackson
