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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In God We Trust
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Perfect Time Music Group - TRUST on 2 Feb 2024
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Loyalty & Trust
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group - LordMobb, LLC on 8 Aug 2019
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1994
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 25 Oct 2019
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TimeServed
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 23 Jul 2013
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Martyrs Prayer II
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 27 Oct 2023
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Martyr's Prayer
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 21 Feb 2020
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Ways and Means
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 1 May 2020
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Checking Traps
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 20 Jan 2023
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Basquiat
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by ThunderStorm Entertainment on 5 Jun 2023
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Every Day (feat. Dave East)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 21 Oct 2021
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Family (feat. Ransom)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 15 Feb 2019
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The Trust Tape (feat. Uncle Black) - Single
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 26 May 2015
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Community Service
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 30 Oct 2020
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Courtside
Rasheed Chappell, 38 Spesh, Little Vic
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Perfect Time Music Group on 27 Jan 2023
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Sacred Psalms
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 27 Nov 2020
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Trust The Sopranos: ’83 Miami Edition
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 21 May 2021
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Loyalty and Trust 2
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 21 Aug 2020
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Checks & Balances
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Perfect Time Music Group - TRUST on 26 Jan 2024
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Kill Switch
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by T.C.F. Music Group on 2 Jun 2023
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BASQUIAT (Remix)
38 Spesh, Jadakiss, Swab, 2WO OFFISHALL
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by ThunderStorm Entertainment on 5 Jul 2023
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