Album dossier / 1984
Ego Trip
Kurtis Blow · Hip-Hop
Kurtis Blow's fourth album for Mercury, featuring an early Run-D.M.C. guest verse on '8 Million Stories' and the Top 40 hit 'Basketball,' captured old-school hip-hop's pivot from park-jam party rhymes toward radio-ready storytelling.
Record facts
- Label
- Mercury
- Producer
- J.B. Moore, Robert Ford Jr.
- Chart peak
- N/A
- Notable tracks
- ★ Basketball
- ★ 8 Million Stories
- ★ Ego Trip
Artist & discography
Complete 1980s Studio Discography
8 studio albums released from 1980–1989 by Kurtis Blow. Archived records link directly to full dossiers; remaining releases are queued for harvesting. MusicBrainz source.
Complete track listing · 7 tracks
- 8 Million Stories
- AJ Scratch
- Basketball
- Under Fire
- I Can't Take It No More
- Ego Trip
- Fallin' Back In Love Again
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Source register
en.wikipedia.org, discogs.com · track listing: https://www.discogs.com/master/85474-Kurtis-Blow-Ego-Trip · cover art: coverartarchive.org
Last enriched: 2026-09-04