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Reviews Ten years on, "Graduation" stands as Kanye's first major stylistic shift, as well as his most ill-advised.
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Original Content T.I.'s crowning achievement, "King," turns ten today. Let's look back.
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Patrick Lyons -
Original Content We re-visit Jay Z's classic album, The Blueprint, on the day it was released 14 years ago.
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Chris Tart -
Reviews The Game dropped "The Documentary" on January 18, 2005.
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Original Content Looking back at Kanye West's sophomore LP 10 years later.
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Chris Tart -
Original Content Our "Classic Rotation" series revisits classic albums on the day of their release. Today we take a look at The Pharcyde's debut album, "Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde," which dropped exactly 22 years ago today.
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Layne Weiss -
Original Content Gang Starr's second album, turning 25 today, is a low-key classic.
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Patrick Lyons -
Original Content The best-received and most ambitious album of Kanye West's career turns five today.
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Patrick Lyons -
Original Content Our "Classic Rotation" series revisits classic albums on the anniversary of their release. Today we take a look at MF Doom & Madlib's classic album, "Madvillainy", which dropped ten years ago, on March 23rd 2004.
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Original Content Five years ago, Future emerged with an album that initially confused the masses but was quickly absorbed into the fabric of rap music.
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Patrick Lyons -
Original Content Busta Rhymes' solo debut "The Coming" turns 20 today.
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Patrick Lyons -
Original Content Our "Classic Rotation" series revisits classic albums on the anniversary of their release. Today we take a look at Dr. Dre's classic album, "2001", which dropped fifteen years ago on November 16, 1999.
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Chris Tart -
Original Content Our "Classic Rotation" series revisits classic albums on the anniversary of their release. Today we take a look at Juvenile's classic album, "400 Degreez", which dropped sixteen years ago on November 3, 1998.
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Glennisha Morgan -
Original Content Twenty years later, the landmark album by the Philly rap band is one that perfectly straddles popular appeal and critical reverence.
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Original Content "Reasonable Doubt" gave us an uncompromising portrait of Jay Z the hustler before the superstardom and entrepreneurial exploits.
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Patrick Lyons -
Original Content We take a look back at OutKast's "ATLiens" on the day of its release, 19 years ago.
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Chris Tart -
Original Content HNHH re-visits and reminisces about classic albums upon the anniversary of their release with the new series "Classic Rotation." To kick things off, we take a look at Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Doggystyle" which dropped on this day in 1993.
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Original Content Our "Classic Rotation" series revisits classic albums on the anniversary of their release. We now take a look back where it all started, N.W.A's unarguable classic, "Straight Outta Compton", which dropped 27 years ago to this day.
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Eve Stern -
Original Content 'The Purple Tape' turns 20.
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Chris Tart -
Original Content Slim Shady LP turns 16, and it still has wheels.
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Chris Tart -
Original Content A Tribe Called Quest's "The Low End Theory," which turns 25 today, brought jazz and hip hop closer than they'd ever been.
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Patrick Lyons -
Original Content Looking back at Lauryn Hill's classic album 17 years later.
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Chris Tart -
Original Content Ten years after its release, "Tha Carter III" holds up in spite of— or maybe because of— its pop crossovers and weirdo ambition.
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Patrick Lyons