On this day in 1988, founding Flavor Unit member MC La Kim aka Lakim Shabazz dropped his classic debut album Pure Righteousness on the Tuff City imprint. Produced exclusively by the late great DJ ...
LL COOL J is staking a claim for bringing Air Jordan sneakers into Hip-Hop. Appearing with Boy Boy, LL recalled wearing the Bred Jordan 1s on the cover of his Radio album. “My first album cover ...
Unlike her predecessors and personal idol, Roxanne Shante, Foxy didn’t have to wear baggy clothes and hide her femininity to succeed as “one of the boys” in hip-hop. On an album full of gems ...
There were rumors Kendrick was working on an album in the wake of his feud with Drake, and the Compton native came through before 2024 expired. GNX serves as Lamar’s official follow-up to Mr. Morale & ...
LL Cool J’s debut album, ‘Radio,’ turned the MC into a hip-hop superstar and put the emerging Def Jam record label on the map. Young, confident, and ambitious, the man born James Todd Smith ...