LL Cool J's Radio Album Anniversary

Released on November 18th, 1985, Radio is the debut album of rapper LL Cool J. Radio was a significant success and became became a Billboard chart hit and sold over 500,000 copies within its first five months of release. By 1989, it had been certified platinum, having sales surpassing one million copies in the United States. Initial reception of the album was generally positive, with praise given to LL Cool J's lyricism and Rubin's production. It has since been recognized by critics as LL Cool J's best album. Read more about LL Cool J and his career here.

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Ice Cube's Album Anniversary

Ice Cube's Album Anniversary

Rapper, actor and producer Ice Cube released his third studio album on November 17th, 1988

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Dr. Dre's 2001 Album Anniversary

Dr. Dre's 2001 Album Anniversary

Dr. Dre released his second solo album, 2001, in 1999. Selling millions of copies, the recording proved to be a hit on both the hip-hop and pop charts.

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MF DOOM's MM.. FOOD Album Anniversary

MF DOOM's MM.. FOOD Album Anniversary

In 2004, Dumile released VV:2, a follow-up LP under the Viktor Vaughn moniker. Later in 2004, the second MF DOOM album (released under the MF DOOM alias) Mm..Food was released by Rhymesayers Entertainment.

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Star on the Rise The MAAP x Hip Hop Scriptures Interview

Star on the Rise The MAAP x Hip Hop Scriptures Interview

DJ, songwriter, independent artist, and musical genre developer The MAAP has sat down to answer a few questions with Hip Hop Scriptures about himself, his upcoming work, his music career, and much more.

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Drake's Take Care Album Anniversary

Drake's Take Care Album Anniversary

On November 15, 2011, Drake released his second studio album, Take Care, which included songs like "Headlines," "Make Me Proud," "The Motto" and "Take Care."

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Method Man's Tical Album Anniversary

Method Man's Tical Album Anniversary

Tical entered the Billboard charts at No. 4 and eventually gained platinum status.

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The Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill

The Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill

The Beastie Boys brashly announced themselves to the world with the full-length Licensed to Ill(1986). A milestone rap-rock release, it contained a feisty statement of purpose (“The New Style”) and the boisterous Gen X anthem “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!),” a Top 10 hit.

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King Tee's Act A Fool Album Anniversary

King Tee's Act A Fool Album Anniversary

He released his debut album Act a Fool in 1988 with the hit singles "Act a Fool," "Payback's A Mutha," "The Coolest," and "Bass” [Remix], all of which were considered hip-hop classics.

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G-Unit's Beg For Mercy Album Anniversary

G-Unit's Beg For Mercy Album Anniversary

Their debut album Beg for Mercy in 2003, went on to ship over 4,000,000 copies in the US and was certified Quadruple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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3rd Bass' The Cactus Album Anniversary

3rd Bass' The Cactus Album Anniversary

The two first performed as '3 the Hard Way', a name referenced in the song "Wordz of Wisdom" but later redubbed themselves '3rd Bass' before recording their first album. Sever, Prince Paul, and the Bomb Squad produced their 1989 debut, The Cactus Album, a critically acclaimed LP that went gold and contained a minor hit in "The Gas Face."

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Prodigy's H.N.I.C. Album Anniversary

Prodigy's H.N.I.C. Album Anniversary

In November 2000, Prodigy released his debut solo album H.N.I.C. His followup solo album would be released in 2008.

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The Pharcyde's Labcabincalifornia Album Anniversary

The Pharcyde's Labcabincalifornia Album Anniversary

In 1995, The Pharcyde released their second album, Labcabincalifornia.

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Jay-Z’s The Black Album Anniversary

Jay-Z’s The Black Album Anniversary


In 2003, Jay-Z shocked the hip-hop world by releasing The Black Album and announcing that it would be his last solo record before retirement.

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Big L's Put It On Song Anniversary

Big L's Put It On Song Anniversary

Big L released the song “Put It On” on November 13, 1994 as the first single from the album "Lifestylz Ov Da Poor & Dangerous."

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Missy Elliott's Under Construction Album Anniversary

Missy Elliott's Under Construction Album Anniversary

Elliott's 2002 album, Under Construction, set sales records for a female-headed rap album, selling 2.1 million copies in the United States.

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Jay-Z's The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse Album Anniversary

Jay-Z's The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse Album Anniversary

Carter turned to rap at a very young age as an escape from the drugs, violence and poverty that surrounded him in the Marcy Projects. In 1989, he joined the rapper Jaz-O—an older performer who served as a kind of mentor—to record a song called "The Originators," which won the pair an appearance on an episode of Yo! MTV Raps. It was at this point that Shawn Carter embraced the nickname Jay-Z, which was simultaneously an homage to Jaz-O, a play on Carter's childhood nickname of "Jazzy," and a reference to the J/Z subway station near his Brooklyn home.

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Eminem's Infinite Album Anniversary

Eminem's Infinite Album Anniversary

It was the birth of Em's first child, Hailie Jade Scott on December 25, 1995 with longtime girlfriend Kim Scott, that encouraged him to work harder for the money his family needed. It was difficult for him who had nothing except the "life sucks" experiences he used as the topic of his rap lyrics. One year later, in 1996, Eminem recorded his first album "Infinite", only to receive few favorable reviews.

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Lil Kim's Hard core Album Anniversary

Lil Kim's Hard core Album Anniversary

Lil' Kim debuted as a solo artist with the release of Hard Core in 1996, continuing the raunchy and lyrical wordplay that the public had already heard on Conspiracy. The album was a success. Critics loved her raw, unapologetic style of rapping, which was much more gritty and vulgar than female MCs of the past like MC Lyte and Queen Latifah. However, around the same time as Kim's debut, the public was introduced to another edgy female rapper by the name of Foxy Brown. She and Kim would continue to feud for years, only adding to their popularity.

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Tim Dog's Penicillin on Wax

Tim Dog's Penicillin on Wax

Some New York hip hop artists resented the exposure and success of their West Coast counterparts, an animosity which Tim Dog would tap into via the release of his groundbreaking first single. Frustrated at the apparent lack of interest in East Coast artists from record companies, Tim recorded "**** Compton", a scathing diss track from his debut album Penicillin on Wax. "Fuck Compton" attacked the city's style of dress and musical output and made threatening gestures to several Compton rappers including Eazy-E, MC Ren, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Michel'le. Tim Dog would later exclude Ice Cube on "Step to Me", another diss track attacking N.W.A.

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