Over the years, greatest album artwork lists in magazines have tended to focus on classic rock: the gatefold sleeves, the high concepts, and the intricacy—think Barney Bubbles’ baroque psychedelia or Hipgnosis’ neo-surrealism. Hip hop, however, has its own gallery of golden greats: NWA’s Straight Outta Compton, Nas’ Illmatic, De La Soul’s 3 Feet High And Rising, to name a few. And then there’s Run DMC’s seminal 1986 classic Raising Hell—a striking sleeve for what was a then-burgeoning genre. It’s fresh, in both the traditional and colloquial sense, made in the spirit of the times when Joseph Simmons a.k.a Run, Darryl McDaniels a.k.a DMC, and DJ Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell rode the zeitgeist into people’s living rooms around the globe…
Lil Wayne and Cash Money Records released “Go DJ” as the second single off Wayne’s fourth studio album, Tha Carter, on October 5, 2004. Thirteen years later, in a 2017 column for Noisey, now…
The Verzuz DJ battles — the real-time, virtual DJ matches on Instagram Live that pit icons of R&B and hip-hop against each other in (usually) friendly musical competition — have become an…
Today on The Breakfast Club we had first time interviewer Kehlani call in, where she spoke about her new album and opened up to us about her open relationship with YG, the beef between Keyshia Cole…
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