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Original Content In honor of Dilla's 42nd birthday, as well as the 10th anniversary of the classic album, we look back at the Detroit producer's final gift to the world: "Donuts."
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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 20 years ago today, AZ released "Doe or Die." We take a look back for Classic Rotation.
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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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Original Content We celebrate five years since the release of Kendrick Lamar's critically acclaimed "Section.80" with an infographic.
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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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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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Original Content T.I.'s crowning achievement, "King," turns ten today. Let's look back.
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Original Content We revisit Guru and DJ Premier’s 1994 classic "Hard To Earn," released 22 years ago today.
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Original Content 21 years since it's release, we revisit OutKast's "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik" as part of our Classic Rotation series.
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Original Content We take a look back at OutKast's "ATLiens" on the day of its release, 19 years ago.
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Original Content On this day in 2004, MF Doom released his album "Mm..Food." We reflect on the album for Classic Rotation.
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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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Reviews The Game dropped "The Documentary" on January 18, 2005.
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Original Content "Tha Carter II" is where Lil Wayne came into his own, transforming into the most dominant rapper of the mid-2000s.
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Original Content Gang Starr's second album, turning 25 today, is a low-key classic.
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Original Content Five years after the release of Young Thug's "Barter 6," we reflect on how the project set up Thug for stardom.
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Original Content Slim Shady LP turns 16, and it still has wheels.
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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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Original Content The best-received and most ambitious album of Kanye West's career turns five today.
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Original Content Our recently-launched "Classic Rotation" series revisits classic albums on the anniversary of their release.Today we take a look at Kanye West's debut album, "College Dropout", which dropped ten years ago on February 10th, 2004.
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Original Content 'The Purple Tape' turns 20.
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Chris Tart -
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