The Sun Always Rises: Morning View Turns 20
Enough edge to play while shotgunning beers and ripping bongs at off-campus ragers, it also down-shifts a couple gears into lava lamp chill mode for quiet dorm room kickbacks.
Nevermind: Glorious Grunge Synergy
An album that roars with Pacific Northwest thunder and caused a tectonic shift in the sound of rock music.
20 Years: The Blueprint and 9/11
Inextricably tied to 9/11, The Blueprint was medicine for my soul during the most horrific of national moments.
Can’t Knock His Hustle: Reasonable Doubt 25 Years On
Reasonable Doubt was supposed to be a one-off joint for Jigga. We know how that played out.
25 Years Later, the Acid is Still Potent
A lot of rappers in the 90s were giving you their versions of Scarface , but only one rapper was giving you Cronenberg movies, with sick beats as the soundtrack.
25 Years Later: Evil Empire
Evil Empire, twenty-five years later, is still ferocious, flashing the same teeth and charging forward with the same energy as its predecessor.
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”.
From the Morning to the Evening: House of Balloons 10th Anniversary
Draw the curtains and cuddle up with Molly
Ready or Not, Hip-Hop Classics Turn 25
‘The Score’ and ‘All Eyez on Me’ were monumental albums that hit different on a global scale.