On this day in 1991, one of hip hop’s most revolutionary voices, Tupac Amaru Shakur, delivered his debut studio album, 2Pacalypse Now. Released through Interscope Records, the project didn’t dominate ...
Everyone calls the ’90s the Golden Age Hip-Hop. That’s cute—but it still feels like a lazy summary of a decade that completely rewrote the rules. Rap albums of the ’80s gave us the blueprint—Slick ...
Some broke new ground in terms of rap and rock collaborations while others had people calling out questionable lyric choices.
Writer Shad Reed gets past the trends and into the immortal albums that have shaped Hip-Hop. An onslaught of Hip-Hop “Mount Rushmores ” has recently flooded social media and various internet spaces to ...