The New York super-group The Firm, which consisted of Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ and Nature, flopped. Dre Presents the Aftermath” compilation album and it’s lead single “Been There, Done That” fell on deaf ears. His attempt to leave gangsta rap behind with the “Dr. Dre left the “untouchable” Death Row Records, his career seemed influx. From the concept (which was nothing short of brilliant in itself) to the music to the extraordinary rhymes – with cuts like “Mortal Man”, “U”, “The Blacker The Berry”, and the highly important “How Much A Dollar Cost”, this is an album that will change you.Rapper Kendrick Lamar has released three studio albums via a partnership between Aftermath Entertainment and Top Dawg Entertainment. To Pimp A Butterfly put you through emotion after emotion and thought process after thought process.
Mixing jazz with soul and eclectic rhythms, this album was a heavy look at the Black consciousness from a human level and a societal level. Eliminating boom bap and sampling for more of a live instrumentalist, stripped down, minimalist approach, the results were spellbinding. Easily The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill of our generation, or even Illmatic or It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, albums like this don’t come along but once a generation. This was history, a musical masterwork of timeless proportions. Although his debut was a classic in every sense, his follow-up deserved more than the term ‘classic’. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)Īn artistic breakout and breakthrough for Hip Hop, Kendrick Lamar elevated his game to an entirely new level. Em not only sold over twelve million units worldwide and won a shitload of awards, it certified that he was the biggest thing in music bar none.ġ. Regardless, this is a masterpiece of an album, in all of its savagery and conflicting emotions. Delivering one of the game’s most compelling cuts ever heard in the deranged “Stan”, the rest of the album was filled with anger, drug usage, misogyny, homophobia, and so many other taboos and emotions it would be hard to keep up. One of the most controversial albums to ever exist, Eminem pushed as many buttons as possible to deliberately piss off conservatives and haters alike. Regardless, this is a masterpiece of an album, in all of Delivering one of the game’s most compelling cuts ever heard in the deranged “Stan”, this album was filled with anger, drug usage, misogyny, homophobia, and so many other taboos and emotions it would be hard to keep up.
We got a look at Marshall, a man that came from a broken home with a very volatile relationship with his daughter’s mother as well as an even more venomous one with his own mother. This was not the joking, twisted humor Slim Shady. He followed The Slim Shady LP up with The Marshall Mathers LP, a noticeably darker, and way more brutally honest Em. This young man was Eminem, and his major-label debut, The Slim Shady LP, was a major, major hit – selling around eight million units based on hits like “My Name Is”, “Just Don’t Give A Fuck”, and “Guilty Conscience”. In ’99, the world was introduced to a bleached-blonde, blue eyed rhyme animal who exhibited dark and twisted humor and who was a mic destroyer as well. While not the likes of 2001 or his landmark debut The Chronic, this album still thoroughly bangs and became of the decade’s biggest accomplishments.Ģ. Sounding refreshed and refueled, Dre recruits old homies like Eminem, Snoop, Xzibit, and Ice Cube, as well as up-and-comers like Justus, King Mez, and new Aftermath signee Jon Connor to help him with this impeccable album.
Dre dropped Compton, and from the moment you pushed play, you were reminded of why he’s one of the single most acclaimed producers in all of music. The rumors turned out to be true, and boy what an album it was.
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While everybody was painfully anticipating his mythical Detox album, word got out he had scrapped the whole project and wanted to start on something else, in conjunction with the hugely successful and record-breaking movie Straight Outta Compton. It had been over a decade since the last time we’ve been blessed with a whole full-length album from the good Doctor.
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