…main inspiration for Shakur’s “Me and My Girlfriend” The album peaked at number one on the Billboard 200. The album generated the second-highest debut-week sales total of any album that…
…a valuable addition to my catalogue; and an important album for Hip Hop period. I liked the idea (double-album) because it would represent something special for album number 10. The…
…I think I first heard Anderson .Paak last August, through his feature on “Animals” from Dr. Dre’s Compton album. Actually, I definitely heard Anderson .Paak for the first time on…
…next decade, the album was mostly composed of battle rap based material, in line with other rappers like Rakim and Big Daddy Kane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4wJtMZl6iA For their next albums production, Wanted:…
…that were recorded from 1993 to ‘96. In The Beginning is entirely produced by Madlib, who provided all the cuts as well. His instrumentals are on that raw and dusty…
What’s the haps folks! It’s only right that after I left you guys with 2016’s best albums, I also had to cover the best cuts of this year. Consider this…
…a household name has nothing to do with people not recognizing his skill set as an emcee, but more with the fact that none of his albums – except his…
…known entity in music. In ’95, another group from the Dungeon Family, Goodie Mob, had dropped their classic and still underrated debut album, Soul Food, and their success fed into…
…the group’s first album. The Ultramagnetic MC’s released a new school classic in 1988, Critical Beatdown, introducing many new sampling techniques. Many believe that without the group’s primary producer, Ced…
…new solo album The Wild, following the 2015 release of Fly International Luxurious Art. The Wild is more than an album; it is yet another epic chamber to Raekwon’s already…
…sat down and talked about Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city. Let me start by saying that this is one of those I-remember-where-I-was-at-the-first-time-I-heard-this-album albums. Not on the level of MJ…
…been acclaimed by critics as a classic album of Hip Hop’s Golden Age and new school aesthetic. The album’s abstract rhymes in strange syncopations laid on top of sampling experiments…