{"id":1121172,"date":"2026-07-31T01:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1121172\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:33:18","slug":"redmans-whut-thee-album-gets-new-vinyl-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1121172\/","title":{"rendered":"Redman\u2019s &#8216;Whut? Thee Album&#8217; Gets New Vinyl Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newark rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/artist\/redman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Redman<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s groundbreaking debut, Whut? Thee Album, is getting fresh life on wax with a new, all-black vinyl variant. The pressing, available for pre-order now, offers another great reason to revisit one of hip-hop\u2019s most celebrated first outings.<\/p>\n<p>Whut? Thee Album introduced Redman as one of hip-hop\u2019s most original new voices, combining incisive lyricism and funk-infused production. The album was released through Def Jam Recordings, Rush Associated Labels, and Chaos Recordings. Recording took place across 1991 and 1992 at studios in New York, with production handled by Redman, credited under his birth name Reggie Noble, along with EPMD\u2019s Erick Sermon and Pete Rock. Redman signed to Def Jam after building a reputation as a member of EPMD\u2019s Hit Squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>Redman has described the recording process as a key independent learning experience for him\u2014according to the rapper, Sermon showed Redman the ropes but frequently left him alone to record. \u201cWhen I first started doing the album I was mad at Erick for leaving me in the studio,\u201d he told the author Brian Coleman in 2007. \u201cI was like \u2018what the fuck am I doing here?\u2019 I had an album to hit the world with, and it was just up to me. But I\u2019m glad he did it, because I learned everything that I needed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whut? Thee Album features tracks including \u201cTime 4 Sum Aksion,\u201d \u201cTonight\u2019s da Night,\u201d and \u201cBlow Your Mind,\u201d all of which capture Redman\u2019s charisma and freestyle proficiency over funk loops that went on to shape the sound of 1990s East Coast hip-hop. \u201cFunk is a feeling,\u201d Redman told XXL in 2014 of his relationship with the sound. \u201dFunk is a way of life. Funk is\u2026 [pauses] It\u2019s actually a nucleus that you have to be born with. When I got down with E Sermon and EPMD, he helped me advance my funkness.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Whut? Thee Album debuted on the Billboard 200 and was later certified gold by the RIAA for sales of more than 500,000 copies in the U.S.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.udiscovermusic.com\/collections\/redman?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=udiscovermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><b>Shop Redman\u2019s Whut? Thee Album on vinyl here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newark rapper Redman\u2018s groundbreaking debut, Whut? Thee Album, is getting fresh life on wax with a new, all-black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1121173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,16345,151033,269,305402,16,15,305403],"class_list":["post-1121172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-homepage-featured","tag-music","tag-redman","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-whut-thee-album"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117012018537594486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}