Da Brat's Limelite, Luv & Nightclubs Album Anniversary

Da Brat's Limelite, Luv & Nightclubs Album Anniversary

In 2003, Brat released her fourth album, titled Limelite, Luv & Niteclubz, and appeared on the 4th season of VH1’s The Surreal Life.

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Drake's Thank Me Later Album Anniversary

Drake's Thank Me Later Album Anniversary

On June 15, 2010, Drake released his first full studio album, Thank Me Later, which debuted at No. 1 on both American and Canadian album charts and has since been certified platinum.

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Slum Village's Fantastic, Vol. 2 Album Anniversary

Slum Village's Fantastic, Vol. 2 Album Anniversary

Fantastic, Vol. 2 was released on GoodVibe Recordings, which featured appearances from Busta Rhymes, Common, D'Angelo, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Pete Rock, Kurupt, and Q-Tip.

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Three 6 Mafia's When The Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1 Album Anniversary

Three 6 Mafia's When The Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1 Album Anniversary

Three 6 Mafia soon found themselves on the verge of superstardom…

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Atmosphere's God Loves Ugly Album Anniversary

Atmosphere's God Loves Ugly Album Anniversary

Atmosphere toured extensively in support of this record, going as far as Europe and Japan, playing sixty shows in seventy-one days.

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Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III Album Anniversary

Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III Album Anniversary

The project netted the Grammy Award for best rap album, and Lil Wayne picked up three more honors at the February 2009 awards ceremony.

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LL Cool J's Walking with a Panther Album Anniversary

LL Cool J's Walking with a Panther Album Anniversary

Two years later, LL was back on the charts with his album Walking with a Panther.

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Kids See Ghosts Self-Titled Debut Album Anniversary

Kids See Ghosts Self-Titled Debut Album Anniversary

In 2018 Cudi and Kanye West formed a duo known as Kids See Ghosts, and produced an album with the same name.

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Warren G's Regulate... G Funk Era Album Anniversary

Warren G's Regulate... G Funk Era Album Anniversary

"Regulate" doubled as the lead single Warren G's debut album, Regulate... G Funk Era, arriving in June 1994.

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EPMD's Strictly Business Album Anniversary

EPMD's Strictly Business Album Anniversary

EPMD's relaxed rapping and relentless funk got noticed, and the group's first album, 1988's Strictly Business, went gold.

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Lost Boyz's Legal Drug Money Album Anniversary

Lost Boyz's Legal Drug Money Album Anniversary

On June 4, 1996, Lost Boyz released their debut album Legal Drug Money.

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Nas' If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) Single Anniversary

Nas' If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) Single Anniversary

This single -- drew from the well-known song, Kurtis Blow's "If I Ruled the World,"

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Lil Baby and Lil Durk's The Voice of the Heroes Album Anniversary

Lil Baby and Lil Durk's The Voice of the Heroes Album Anniversary

On June 4th 2021, Lil Baby released his collaborative studio album with Lil Durk, The Voice of the Heroes.

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Wu-Tang Clan's 'Wu-Tang Forever' Album Anniversary

Wu-Tang Clan's 'Wu-Tang Forever' Album Anniversary

Hugely anticipated, the album entered the charts at number one - selling over 600,000 copies in its first week alone - and quickly spawned the hit single Triumph.

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Kanye West's Ye Album Anniversary

Kanye West's Ye Album Anniversary

"Yikes" and "All Mine" were released as singles in the summer of 2018 in support of Ye, with a lyric video being released for the latter simultaneously with one for non-single "Violent Crimes". Both of the singles attained top 20 positions on the US Billboard Hot 100

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Ja Rule's Venni Vetti Vecci Album Anniversary

Ja Rule's Venni Vetti Vecci Album Anniversary

Fueled by the success of Holla Holla, Ja Rule's debut album, Venni Vetti Vecci, was released in 1999, peaking at #3 on the Billboard 200 with 184,000 copies sold in its first week.

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Seagram's The Dark Roads Album Anniversary

Seagram's The Dark Roads Album Anniversary

The Dark Roads is Seagram’s debut album, released in 1992 on Rap-A-Lot Records and Priority Records.

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The Beastie Boy's Ill Communication Album Anniversary

The Beastie Boy's Ill Communication Album Anniversary

Ill Communication is among the Beastie Boys’ most varied releases.

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Boogie Down Productions' By All Means Necessary Album Anniversary

Boogie Down Productions' By All Means Necessary Album Anniversary

BDP was influential in provoking political and social consciousness in hip-hop, for example in Stop The Violence off 1988's By All Means Necessary.

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Naughty By Nature's Poverty's Paradise Album Anniversary

Naughty By Nature's Poverty's Paradise Album Anniversary

1995's Poverty's Paradise was the group's final album for Tommy Boy; it went on to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album.

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