boom moment in hip hop

Boom Moment In Hip-Hop: October 12, 1999 The Debut Of Mos Def: Black on Both Sides On this date in 1999, Yasiin Bey, formally known to the hip-hop world as Mos Def, released his debut album Black on Both Sides. This came after the 1998 collaboration with Talib Kweli, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are […]

Boom Moment In Hip-Hop: Sept. 28th, 1999 The debut of Redman and Method Man, on this date in 1999, the hip-hop duo released their debut project, Blackout! After many collabs, they finally released a full length project, and the people loved it! The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 with 254,000 copies sold, and […]

Boom Moment In Hip-Hop On this day in 2003, one of the greatest hip-hop duo’s of all time released their fifth studio album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. The album had a very unique distribution, with over two hours of  music distributed over solo albums from Big Boi and Andre 3000. Speakerboxxx had that classic, southern hip-hop […]

Boom Moment In Hip-Hop On this date in 1998, Big Tymers continued their boisterous raps with the release of How You Luv That Vol. 2. The album was produced entirely by Mannie Fresh, and featured Bun B, Lil Wayne, B.G., and Juvenile. It spawned three major records for the Cash Money discography, “Drop It Like It’s […]

BOOM MOMENT IN HIP-HOP: September 17th Act Like You Know is the third album released by the legend MC Lyte. It was released on this day in 1991. The album had a softer, more R&B-like sound than her previous more hardcore albums like Lyte as a Rock & Eyes on This. The project featured some major […]

Boom Moment In Hip-Hop: Paid in Full Paid in Full is the debut album of duo Eric B. & Rakim, released on this date in 1987. The album was recorded in producer Marley Marl’s home studio, following Rakim’s response to Eric B.’s search for a rapper to compliment his DJ work. The album produced 5 […]

Today marks the follow up to one of the greatest album’s in hip-hop history, Illmatic. It Was Written was Nas’s second studio album released July 2, 1996. Nas chose to focus his efforts in more of a mainstream direction following the moderate sales following his debut. The album was a departure from that gritty New […]

  Boom Moment In Hip-Hop (1997) It’s been one chaotic week to say the least for Diddy. After his run in with his son’s football coach, to the BadBoy Reunion show at the BET Awards, and plumiting off stage during that same performance, Diddy is ready for this week to end. There is some good […]

Boom Moment In Hip-Hop (2001) 14 years ago to the day, Philadelphia’s own Beanie Sigel dropped his second studio album, The Reason, under Roc-A-Fella Records. The album featured some of the regulars such as Memphis Bleek, Jay Z, Freeway, Omilio Sparks. He also recruited Scarface, Daz, Kurupt, and Rell to be featured on the album. […]

Boom Moment In Hip-Hop: Kiss Questions Everything Wrong In The World With Hit Record “Why?” (2004) On June 22, 2004, Jadakiss released his second studio album Kiss of Death under Ruff Ryders and Interscope. This was a follow up to his 2001 gold selling debut Kiss The Game Goodbye. The album reached #1 on both […]

Boom Moment In Hip-Hop On this date in 1997, Capone-N-Noreaga released their impactful debut album The War Report. Despite the album having a baring underground feel to it, it did receive success commercially and made Hip Hop/R&B Top Five list that same year. The album spawned many underground hip-hop classics such as “L.A., L.A.”, “T.O.N.Y.”, […]

Boom Moment In Hip-Hop On this date in 2009, J Dilla posthumous album, Jay Stay Paid, was released and mixed like a radio show by Pete Rock. It was released on Nature Sounds, and was Dilla’s fourth album overall. Even though vocals were contributed from several artists, it is classified as an instrumental hip-hop album. […]