Doomtree are a hip-hop collective (and record label) from Minneapolis, including Dessa, Cecil Otter, P.O.S., Sims, Mike Mictian, Paper Tiger, and Lazerbeak. False Hopes came out (on CD) before their “debut” album, self-titled Doomtree, in 2008.

There were many other “False Hopes” CDs of individual artists. The bandcamp for this release claims “This is the eleventh (or twelfth) False Hopes. It is also the first to feature the entire Doomtree crew*” but the asterisk notes that’s “not technically true” so who knows. Their own bandcamp lists only 4 other “False Hopes” releases, but there are many more in discogs.

My copy is actually a 2018 Tenth Anniversary Vinyl Reissue, via Down in the Valley in Golden Valley, MN