SMC Recordings is an independent hip hop record label established in 2005 in San Francisco, California, by Ralph Tashjian, Will Bronson and George Nauful. The full-service independent record label SMC primarily signs and distributes established hip hop artists.SMC originally grew out of a vision that Ralph Tashjian had in the early ’00s to launch a new kind of record label, one based in his hometown, that would be about hip hop music.