Mean Street, a Southern California music magazine, launched a record label dedicated to West Coast hip hop at the end of the 90s. It emerged just as the post-Good Life/Project Blowed underground movement was taking off and its best artists -- the Shapeshifters, 2Mex, Adlib aka Thavius Beck -- were graduating from hastily recorded cassettes to full-fledged albums. It issued many classic releases, from 2Mex's "B-Boys In Occupied Mexico" and Kan Kick's "From Artz Unknown" to the A-Team's "Who Framed The A-Team" (the cassette version) and Awol One's "Speakerface." Sadly, the label petered out by 2005, and many of these essential indie rap albums are now out of print.