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…
As the music world remembers Tupac Shakur on what would have been his 49th birthday today (June 16), Billboard revisits the artist’s legacy that he left behind on the Billboard Hot 100…
The documentary On the Record opens by asking a question: “What is missing from #MeToo?” In the nearly three years since the hashtag went viral, the phrase has become a de facto movement, a…
“Introducing” doesn’t feel like the right word to use for an artist like Alina Baraz, who’s been on the scene for half a decade already. Her debut album It Was Divine came out last Friday…
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