Musa Allah - The 1994-1996 Unreleased Demos EP - 2024

EP - 2024 - Chopped Herring Records

"And we're back in once again for the first release of 2024.

I love a drop where the artist hits me up. There's something special about a talented cat reaching out to get his project released through Herring. Musa aka Howard Lloyd hit me up with a DAT transfer of joints that had previously been lost in time. They eventually showed up 30 years later after much digging and boy, was it worth the wait.

Cats will probably know Musa from his solo stuff as Howard Lloyd, his work in Sputnik Brown as well as his 90's crew House of Reps featuring Wyld Bunch.  Dude has been a fixture on the Long Island and NY scene since the early 90s. He recorded his first demos in 1994 at the legendary Firehouse Studios and here for your listening pleasure, we have 4 tracks and 3 dub versions from those sessions including one mixed by our man C-12. The remaining 3 tracks on this stunning 10 tracker are by his crew House of Reps and were recorded down in GA in 96.

Feedback from the very short snippets has been pretty serious and now you can peep some more. Props to Musa for reaching out and for the incredible music." - courtesy of Chopped Herring Records 

300 copies on Black Wax in trad Herring sticker jacket & 50 copies on white label on Black Wax in the sick Season-Only White Label jackets designed by Swerve-One.

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House Of Reps - Why It Gotta Be Me? / Smoke 2 Many Blunts - 1996

12" - 1996 - H.O.R Entertainment

First and only 12" released by House of Reps, a group composed of 3 members ... Wyld Bunch (James Bunch), H.Lloyd (Howard Buford) and Beatz Boom (Virgil Oliver). The wax came out in 1996 on H.O.R Entertainment, a record label managed by H.Lloyd who was the core member of the group. 

Wyld Bunch : "I'm from Brooklyn and I lived a few houses down from Beatz Boom cousins which is how we met around the age of 10. Boom and Lloyd both lived in Long Island at that time. I met H.Lloyd through Boom. H. Lloyd was already making beats on his MPC when we met and I was already writing rhymes by then as well."

The 12" is only composed of 2 tracks, 'Why It Gotta Be Me?' and 'Smoke 2 Many Blunts', both produced by Musa Allah a.k.a H. Lloyd. Both tracks also features an other emcee named Tre Best of Sputnik Brown who was affiliated with the group. 

Wyld Bunch : "Tre Best is H.Lloyds little cousin. If you're familiar with the Mobb Deep family, in comparison, Tre was like our rapper Noyd... only a thousand times better lol... He spit with us but he pretty much always did his own thing...

We stopped after that 12" cuz we were just kids... no money ... we scraped up the money for that 12inch and we did it just to do it. No one knew much about the business part of making records... especially as an independent... we just wanted to make a record cuz all we did was make music at that time."

Mad Props to Wyld Bunch 

House Of Reps - Why It Gotta Be Me? - 1996

12" - 1996 - H.O.R Ent. 

A1 - Why It Gotta Be Me?  

A2 - Smoke 2 Many Blunts