Dive Deeper with the Mercer...
six years later, it still hasn't been touched.
A decade later it remains the most complete portrait of Compton ever put to record.
Thirty-two years since its release, Illmatic remains the standard against which hip hop albums are measured, not because of what it influenced, but because of what it simply is.
A decade since Blonde dropped, the album's legacy is as much about Frank Ocean's business architecture as its unreal production. Here's why it still matters.
Before it became simply 2001, Dr Dre's masterpiece was almost called Chronic II, then Chronic 2000, then Chronic 2001. The story behind the title is as compelling as the album itself.
Listened to Ready to Die this weekend and had to read extensively about it, only to find out that something was happening with the “Juicy” beat.
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