38 Spesh
Some of the grimmest and most lucid street tales from the post-2000 New York state underground have been spun by 38 Spesh, a boom-bap disciple with over two dozen solo and collaborative projects, including Time Served (2012), Stabbed & Shot (2018), A Bullet for Every Heathen (2019), and 7 Shots (2022). The rapper and producer has worked closely with fellow Upstate natives such as Benny the Butcher and Che Noir, and has recorded with influences including Kool G Rap, Ghostface Killah, and DJ Premier.
Spesh, originally known as 38 Special, has been rapping since the early 2000s. In 2006, he appeared on Alive on Arrival, a mixtape by early supporter and fellow Rochester product DJ Green Lantern. By the end of that decade, Spesh had headlined a couple Lantern-presented tapes. Imprisoned for a couple years, the artist returned in 2012 with Time Served, starting a constant dispersal of studio projects that continued through the end of the 2010s. Along with numerous solo releases, Spesh showcased artists on his TCF Music Group label with the Trust Tape series. On other releases, he was co-billed with Benny the Butcher (Cocaine Cowboys and Stabbed & Shot), Joe Blow (In the Mob We Trust), and Kool G Rap (the cross-generational Son of G Rap). Spesh closed out his second decade of activity with a handful of solo tapes highlighted by A Bullet for Every Heathen.
Especially prolific in 2020, Spesh was behind at least ten titles that year alone, teaming with the likes of Che Noir and Planet Asia for numerous duo projects, and offering solo releases ranging from the instrumental set Speshal Blends to Interstate 38. Spesh linked again with Benny the Butcher for Trust the Sopranos in 2021, and the next year issued the solo 7 Shots. Spesh kept busy in 2023, teaming up with Vic Spencer on Greenthumbs Meets Trigger Fingers and Grafh on Art of Words.
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Money in the Mattress
Elcamino, 38 Spesh, Harry Fraud
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Anti Gun Violence Co. on 15 Jun 2022
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Mint Green
38 Spesh, Harry Fraud, Curren$y
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group - SRFSCHL, LLC on 17 Nov 2022
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Two 23's
38 Spesh, Harry Fraud, Conway The Machine
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group - SRFSCHL, LLC on 17 Nov 2022
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Speshal (feat. Stove God Cooks)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group - SRFSCHL, LLC on 2 Nov 2022
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Flour City 2 (feat. Eto)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 19 Mar 2020
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Driver's Seat
38 Spesh, BENNY, Styles P, Jadakiss
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 25 Jan 2018
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Upstate 2 Queens
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 11 May 2018
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The Trust Tape 2 (Instrumentals)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 30 Jun 2015
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Top of the Red
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Mandatory Respect Ent. on 25 Oct 2020
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The Trust Tape
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 26 May 2015
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Incustody
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 7 Jun 2008
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The Trust Tape 2
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 23 Jun 2015
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7 Shots (Radio Edit)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 7 Sep 2022
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Never Seen A Man Cry (feat. Benny The Butcher & Conway The Machine)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 27 Sep 2019
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1000 Words
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 3 Apr 2020
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Last Gasp
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Momentum Entertainment on 18 Jul 2022
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Painful
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 31 Aug 2022
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Prey (feat. Ransom)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 17 Jan 2020
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Army of Trust II
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 17 Apr 2020
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Grateful Dead
Jmo Let Em Know, 38 Spesh, Curren$y
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 14 May 2021
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