Enjoy Records was a record label owned and operated by Bobby Robinson from 1962 through the mid-1980s, and was run out of his record shop at 125th Street

125th Street (Manhattan)

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 and 8th Ave. in Harlem

Harlem

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. Starting with blues

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, R&B, and rock and roll

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, the label recorded many of the original old school hip hop

Old school hip hop

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 groups and MC's, including Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five

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, the Funky 4+1, Spoonie Gee

Spoonie Gee

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, and the Treacherous Three

Treacherous Three

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, beginning in 1979. It closed down in 1987, although Robinson's shop remained opened.