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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Speshal Machinery
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Sep. 8, 2023
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Cocaine Cowboys
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Nov. 4, 2008
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Juno
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Feb. 14, 2020
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Outdoor Kitchen (Sway In The Morning Freestyle)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Jan. 6, 2023
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Stabbed & Shot
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Feb. 16, 2018
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Beyond Belief
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group - SRFSCHL, LLC on Nov. 18, 2022
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7 Shots
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Sep. 7, 2022
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Greenthumbs Meets Trigger Fingers
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Feb. 24, 2023
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Interstate 38
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Dec. 25, 2020
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Band of Brothers
Harry Fraud, Benny The Butcher, 38 Spesh
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group - SRFSCHL, LLC on Nov. 9, 2022
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Goodfellas
38 Spesh, Conway The Machine, Benny The Butcher
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Sep. 1, 2023
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The 38 Laws of Powder
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Sep. 13, 2016
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Latex Gloves
38 Spesh, Conway The Machine, Lloyd Banks
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Aug. 25, 2023
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A Bullet For Every Heathen
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Aug. 23, 2019
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5 Shots - EP
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Jan. 25, 2019
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38 Strategies Of Raw
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Feb. 1, 2019
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The Trust Tape 3
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Apr. 19, 2019
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Out On Bail
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Jul. 15, 2007
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1995
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Dec. 11, 2020
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6 Shots
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on Jul. 31, 2020
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