Top Shelf

Top Shelf was a recording studio in New York City known as one of the seminal studios for hip hop music artists in the 1980s. It was destroyed in the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot.

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Tompkins Square Park "Police Riot" Tape Catalogue

Some of the artists known to frequent the studio were Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, MC Lyte and Doug E. Fresh.

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