Mobb Deep's Survival of the Fittest Single Anniversary
The Fat Boys 'Fat Boys' Album Anniversary
LL Cool J's Bigger and Deffer Album Anniversary
N.W.A.'s EFIL4ZAGGIN Album Anniversary
ASAP Rocky's At. Long. Last. ASAP Album Anniversary
Menace II Society Soundtrack Anniversary
Eminem's The Eminem Show Album Anniversary
Slick Rick's The Art of Storytelling Album Anniversary
Big Daddy Kane's Looks Like A Job For... Album Anniversary
Compton's Most Wanted It's A Compton Thang Album Anniversary
Jeru the Damaja's The Sun Rises In the East Album Anniversary
Chill Rob G's Ride the Rhythm Album Anniversary
Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP Anniversary
Luniz's I Got 5 On It Single Anniversary
Eric B & Rakim's Let the Rhythm Hit Em Album Anniversary
KRS-One's I Got Next Album Anniversary
The prodigious talent has released fifteen classic Rap albums; Criminal Minded (1987), By All Means Necessary (1988), Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hiphop (1989), Edutainment (1990), Sex and Violence (1992), Return of the Boom Bap (1994), KRS-ONE (1995), I Got Next (1997), A Retrospective (2000), Sneak Attack (2001), Spiritual Minded (2002), Prophets vs. Profits;The Mix Tape (2003), D.I.G.I.T.A.L (2003), Kristyles (2003), Keep Right (2004), LIFE (2006), Hip Hop Lives (2007), Adventures in Emceein (2007) and Maximum Strength (2008). In 1997 he reached #3 on the Billboard charts with the hit "Step into a World (Rapture's Delight)" featuring a remix by P. Diddy and has since collaborated with a string of artists running the gamut of R.E.M and Ziggy Marley to Chuck D and EPMD.
Dr. Dre's Dre Day Anniversary
Breaking out on his own and on a new record label, Dr. Dre hit the top of the hip-hop charts with The Chronic on Death Row Records in 1992. The biggest single from the album was "Nuthin but a 'G' Thang," which featured Snoop Dogg, then a little-known rapper. With this latest release, Dr. Dre helped introduce a new style called G-funk, which incorporated musical samples and melodies from funk with gangster rap. Dr. Dre had always admired the work of such acts as Parliament and Funkadelic.