Rap-A-Lot Records


Rap-A-Lot is a Hip Hop record label founded by James Prince in 1987. Sub-labels include Smoke-A-Lot. The label, with its most famous act The Geto Boys, put the South on the Hip Hop map. Since then, it has maintained its success and focus on Gangsta Rap and Southern Rap.
Rap-A-Lot was first distributed by A&M for a short time with the release of Raheem's 1988 debut The Vigilante. The label was later distributed through the 1990s by EMI's Priority, Noo Trybe and Virgin. During the rest of the 2000s, it was distributed by Asylum and then Fontana.
The Geto Boys were the label's first nationally popular act, while Devin the Dude, whom The New York Times called "a brilliant oddball with a spaced-out flow," and whose contract ended in 2008, was, for 15 years, the label's longest-running act.
On August 22, 2013, Rap-A-Lot announced that it recently signed a distribution deal with RED. Artists currently on its roster include Z-Ro and Bun B among others.

Current artists

1980s

1987
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1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
  • 2Low - Funky Lil Brotha
  • 5th Ward Boyz - Gangsta Funk
  • Odd Squad - Fadanuf Fa Erybody!!
  • Trinity Garden Cartel - Don't Blame It on da Music
  • Tim Smooth - Straight Up Drivin' Em
  • Blac Monks - Secrets of the Hidden Temple
  • Seagram - Reality Check
  • Big Mello - Wegonefunkwichamind
  • Big Mike - Somethin' Serious
  • Scarface - The Diary
1995
  • CJ Mac - True Game
  • 5th Ward Juvenilez - Deadly Groundz
  • Bushwick Bill - Phantom of the Rapra
  • Poppa LQ - Your Entertainment, My Reality
  • Menace Clan - Da Hood
  • 5th Ward Boyz - Rated G
1996
1997
  • Scarface - The Untouchable
  • Big Mike - Still Serious
  • Ghetto Twiinz - In That Water
  • Seagram - Souls on Ice
  • Too Much Trouble - Too Much Weight
  • 5th Ward Boyz - Usual Suspects
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
  • Devin the Dude - Just Tryin' ta Live
  • Outlawz - Neva Surrenda
  • Hussein Fatal - Fatal
  • Luniz - Silver & Black
  • Big Syke - Big Syke
  • Do or Die - Back 2 the Game
  • Tela - Double Dose
  • Scarface - Greatest Hits
  • Yukmouth - United Ghettos of America
  • Geto Boys - Greatest Hits
  • Project Playaz - The Return
  • Facemob - Silence
  • Snypaz - Snypaz
2003
  • Scarface - Balls & My Word
  • Yukmouth - Godzilla
  • Slim Thug & Lil' Keke - The Big Unit
  • DMG - Black Roulette
  • Do or Die - Pimpin' Ain't Dead
  • Dirty - Love Us or Hate Us
  • Criminal Manne - Neighborhood Dope Manne
  • Do or Die - Greatest Hits
2004
  • Devin the Dude - To Tha X-Treme
  • Thug Lordz - In Thugz We Trust
  • Z-Ro - The Life of Joseph W. McVey
  • Various artists - The Day After Hell Broke Loose
  • UTP - The Beginning of the End
  • 5th Ward Boyz - Greatest Hits
  • Yukmouth - United Ghettos of America Vol. 2
  • UTP - Nolia Clap
2005
  • Lil' Flip & Z-Ro - Kings of the South
  • Geto Boys - The Foundation
  • Z-Ro - Let the Truth Be Told
  • Pimp C - Sweet James Jones Stories
  • Bun B - Trill
  • Dirty - Hood Stories
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
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