A Quick Hit: Liquid Swords Cut Deep
The classic rap album from a legendary Wu-Tang MC turns 30.
A Quick Hit: Stankonia
Twenty-five years ago, OutKast dropped their last cohesive group project.
A Quick Hit: Cuban Linx Anniversary
Thirty years ago, Wu-Tang legends cooked up a dazzling album.
ODB: The Dirty Version
Wu-Tang Clan founding member and master of the drunken style revisted for 30th anniversary.
Hop-Heavy: Gang Starr Cold Barelled
Southern Cal breweries collab and produce a Pilsner for beer casuals.
Standard Issue: Hip-Hop, Vol. 1
Ten essential tracks from a slice of time during hip-hop’s Golden Age.
Bobby Digital: 25th Anniversary
A bold attempt by a hip-hop genius to bring a comic book style antihero to life on a rap album underwhelms as it hints to what could have been.
September 29th, 1998: A Landmark Day for Hip-Hop
Jay-Z and OutKast dropped historic albums that changed the game.
Hop-Heavy: Mango Chile Ale & Vince Staples
A union of flavors that could have only been crafted in So Cal.
‘It’s Dark and Hell is Hot’: 25 Year Anniversary
DMX’s debut album introduced us to rap’s most complicated anti-hero.
Rap Kumite 5
Kung-Fu Kenny brings his fists of fury to a dank basement in Detroit to battle Slim Shady.
Rap Kumite 10
In a battle between “rhyme sayers”, indie-hop legends Evidence and Slug go head-to-head.
DMX: As Real As It Gets
DMX was the hardest shit I had ever heard. Heavy metal hip-hop. He was a hurricane on the record. He was “a motherf***ing problem”.