The Shopkeeper's Wife is an EP by Minnesota alternative hip hop group Oddjobs.

A six-song EP, The Shopkeeper's Wife was the followup to Oddjobs' most critically and commercially successful album, 2002's Drums.

[2] One song on The Shopkeeper's Wife was originally recorded for the 1999 cassette-only release The Whereabouts of Hidden Bridges, a collaboration with Minneapolis rapper Eyedea.

[3][4] Stanton Swihart of AllMusic called The Shopkeeper's Wife "exceptionally sophisticated, extraordinary music" and "the vanguard of hip-hop, rap as brain food.

"[6] Prince Paul of the website XLR8R praised the album for its "dark, quality production (and) good rhyme-flows", and went on to say that "If you get high or if you are the serious mad-at-the-world type, you’ll love this.