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Contributed to bringing hip hop and neo soul to the forefront of popular music, and regarded as among the best hip-hop albums of all time. [467] [468] Accolades: 25 August 1998 () XO: Elliott Smith Alternative rock [469] art pop [470] baroque pop [471] chamber pop [159] indie folk [472] indie rock [473] DreamWorks
The album raised rap music to a new level of popularity. It was the first hip-hop album certified diamond by the RIAA for sales of over ten million. [3] It remains one of the genre's all-time best-selling albums. [4] To date, the album has sold over 18 million copies worldwide. [5] [6] [7] [8]
This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1990. Eric B. & Rakim's Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em earned praise within hip-hop circles and marked the group's third consecutive gold album.
With hip hop having greatly increased in mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their March 11, 1989 issue under the name Hot Rap Singles. [1] [2] Prior to the addition of the chart, hip hop music had been profiled in the magazine's "The Rhythm & the Blues" column and disco-related sections, while some rap ...
Hip-hop has historically given us lots of amazing, cohesive albums from Public Enemy’s “It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” to Kanye’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” to ...
AllMusic called it “a stroke of brilliance,” “a virtuosic masterpiece,” and “a landmark hip-hop album of the late '90s.” Entertainment Weekly called it the rap album of the year.
Mecca and the Soul Brother is the 1992 debut album from hip-hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth. The album contains their best known song, "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)". Mecca and the Soul Brother has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. [2] [3] The album was mostly produced by Pete Rock and executive ...
[39] [40] Hip hop scholar Michael Eric Dyson stated, "during the golden age of hip hop, from 1987 to 1993, Afrocentric and black nationalist rap were prominent", [41] and critic Scott Thill described the time as "the golden age of hip hop, the late '80s and early '90s when the form most capably fused the militancy of its Black Panther and Watts ...