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By Black Eyed Peas, 2009
The E.N.D. (short for The Energy Never Dies) is the fifth studio album by American pop group The Black Eyed Peas. The album was first released in Japan on 3 June 2009, and worldwide six days later. Critics described the album as containing more anthemic and inspirational songs in the group's bid...
- The Marshall Mathers LP
By Eminem, 2000
The Marshall Mathers LP is the third studio album by American rapper, Eminem. Released May 23, 2000, the album sold more than 1.79 million copies in its first week just in the US, earning a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest selling solo album ever. In 2001, the album won the...
- The Slim Shady LP
By Eminem, 1999
On The Slim Shady LP , Eminem wants it all. He's conflicted, you see; the world has treated him badly, and he wants to respond in kind. But he isn't a straight-up gangsta--this is, after all, the first release on Dr. Dre 's Aftermath Records, his post-Death Row-era venture--and Eminem (born...
- All Eyez on Me
By 2Pac, 1996
Simultaneously serving as both endless fodder for intellectual debates and the album most likely to be blaring out of the adjacent car's window, All Eyez on Me is a phenomenon that packs a wallop with every listen. Unquestionably the most nihilistic album to top the Billboard charts--and it's...
- The Blueprint
By Jay-Z, 2001
The Blueprint is the sixth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released September 11, 2001 on Roc-A-Fella Records in the United States. Its release was set a week earlier than initially planned in order to combat bootlegging. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2001 at Manhattan...
- The Score
By Fugees, 2008
The Score is the Grammy-winning sophomore album by the R&B/hip-hop trio Fugees, released worldwide February 13, 1996, following their 1994 debut Blunted on Reality. Since the album's release, it has received mostly positive praise from critics and to date is one of the highest selling Hip-hop...
- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
By OutKast, 2003
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records in the United States. Issued as a double album, it clocks at over two and-a-half hours and consists of a solo album from both of the group's members.
- The Black Album
By Jay-Z, 2003
If The Black Album is truly Jay-Z's last statement before retirement, he at least goes out near the top of his game. While it probably won't be remembered as his best album, The Black Album is his most personal to date and features some of his most compelling writing.
- Get Rich Or Die Tryin
By 50 Cent, 2003
He's been shot nine times. Incarcerated. And stabbed up and down. And that's only what's happened on 50 Cent's down time. Hands down, 50 Cent is the biggest buzz emcee since Eminem (who just happens to be his label CEO), and Get Rich also features Dr. Dre on production, so it's a can't-miss record...
- The College Dropout
By Kanye West, 2004
The College Dropout is the debut album by American rapper and producer Kanye West , released February 10, 2004. The album was recorded over a period of four years, beginning in 1999. After years of work that West underwent in order to establish himself as an artist, after dropping out of college to...
- Word of Mouf
By Ludacris, 2001
Word of Mouf is rapper Ludacris' second studio album, released in 2001. Def Jam decided to release the album early when pirated copies of the album's tracks were leaked onto popular peer-to-peer file sharing networks. The album sold over 281,000 copies in its first week of sales, giving it a #3...
- Stankonia
By OutKast, 2000
Imagine if the ghetto got electrified. That's Stankonia, an album of street smarts doused with gasoline and ready to burn. When a thundering electric guitar collides with a relentless drumbeat on the molten "Gasoline Dreams," it dominates mind and body, setting the tone for the album.
- Enter the Wu-Tang
By Wu-Tang Clan, 1993
Vinyl Classics reissue of the 1993 album comes as a vinyl look-a-like CD that's packaged in a die-cut, see-through Slipcase. BMG. 2005.This debut revolutionized hip-hop (and launched half a dozen solo careers), as much for The RZA's raw barrage of off-kilter, off-key loops and sound effects as for...
- Things Fall Apart
By The Roots, 1999
They've long been hip-hop's best band, for whatever that's worth, and in their amazing live shows they've shown an ability to pay homage to the past and look to the future--all while living firmly in the now. But on Things Fall Apart, the Roots finally pull their promise and ability together, and...
- Hot, Cool & Vicious
By Salt 'N Pepa, 1992
One of the first albums to challenge hip-hop's machocratic sovereignty, Salt-N-Pepa's Hot, Cool & Vicious takes as its musical model Run-D.M.C.'s potent distillation of streetwise repartee, hard-ass bluster and beatbox rhythms. Determined to say it loud and say it proud, r-r-r-rappers Cheryl "Salt"...
- The Documentary
By The Game, 2005
THE DOCUMENTARY, (Aftermath/G Unit/Interscope), the debut album from The Game (a/k/a Jayceon Taylor), announces the arrival of the most significant West Coast gangsta rapper since Snoop Dogg more than a decade earlier. With guest spots from 50 CENT, NATE DOGG and several others, as well as...
- E 1999 Eternal
By Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, 1998
Australian edition now contains a bonus track - "Tha Crossroads (D.J. U-Neeks Mo Thug Remix) - a worldwide hit single not included on the original version of the album!!!It's somehow appropriate that Ruthless Records' first release since the death of its founder, Eazy-E, would come from Bone...
- Black Star
By Black Star, 2002
Even in hip-hop--a genre famous for auspicious debuts--Black Star, the first album from the team of Mos Def and Talib Kweli, stands out. It's not just because these guys know their history (an update of Slick Rick's classic "Children's Story," a fine jack of BDP's "The P Is Free" on "Definition,"...
- Paid in Full
By Eric B. & Rakim, 1987
Paid in Full is credited as a benchmark album of golden age hip hop. Rakim's rapping, which pioneered the use of internal rhymes in hip hop, set a higher standard of lyricism in the genre and served as a template for future rappers. The album's heavy sampling by Eric B. became influential in hip...
- Strictly Business
By EPMD, 1991
Imagine a time in history when artists didn't have to clear any samples in their music. EPMD's 1988 debut, Strictly Business, like the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, was recorded during the clearance-free sample heyday, and we're all a lot better off because of it.
- Liquid Swords
By Genius, 1995
Liquid Swords is the second solo studio album by American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan-member GZA, released November 7, 1995 on Geffen Records. It is considered to be one of the best Wu-Tang Clan solo albums along with Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx . The album went platinum and was critically...
