Up Above Records
Up Above Records is an independent hip hop record label based in Long Beach, California, United States, co-founded in 1995 by Doug "Papadoug" Kato and The Visionaries member KeyKool, along with DJ Rhettmatic and Beat Junkies. The label's first release was a 12" single, KeyKool & Rhettmatic's "Can U Hear It". The single's b-side, "E=MC5" featuring Ras Kass, Meen Green, Voodoo, and Visionaries member LMNO, was deemed "an underground classic" by Source Magazine (Feb. '96).
Up Above Records has built a reputation as vinyl record specialists releasing 12-inch singles (the Jay Dee aka J Dilla hip-hop hit "Fuck the Police"), as well as distributing vinyl releases for Jurassic 5, Legendary Music, and other distinguished artists such as Kool G Rap, The Beatnuts, Tony Touch, Dilated Peoples, DJ Spinna, and Sadat X, to name a few.
Up Above Records has also released four moderately successful albums by the Visionaries, along with numerous albums for artists such as those listed below.
The Clouds
I have been waiting on a response for days
There has been a complication
It seems your heart needed a break
From pumping the blood through your veins
And keeping the oxygen ok
I still see your face
Any day when I see your eyes in a bottle that was way too tall
I finished it to just see if we could talk
Now I am speaking with your ghost again
It’s Telling me that I don’t understand
Can we be friends in another lifetime
And I might pretend
That we are right now
Jumping feelings from a dying dream
I drank the poison from a black moon sleep
Then I saw you
I felt your kiss in a dream I had
I felt your skin in a monument
Then I went home to live a brand new life without you
And buried your face
Beneath the giant shadows of the clouds
And they will stay there under ground
But no matter what I do
I never will stop talking to you
I never did get the last word in
You said I always did
I never did get the last word in
You said I always did
I never did get the last word in
You said I always did
I never did get the last word in
You said I always did
I never did get the last word in
You said I always did
I never did get the last word in
You said I always did
I never did get the last word in
You said I always did
I never did get the last word in