US Hip Hop

Guru's Jazzmatazz Volume 1, originally released in 1993, is one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping.

Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF Doom hides the cachet underground legends are made of.

36 Chambers, an insular and weird album by design, arrived not a moment too soon in a decade where insular and weird music found unexpected traction in the mainstream.

Often cited as one of the best hip-hop albums of the '90s, 'Illmatic' is the undisputed classic upon which Nas' reputation rests.

The double album is Lamar's first studio album release since Damn (2017), his first album release under his creative collective PGLang, and his final project with TDE (under which he previously released four albums and was one of their flagship artists).

On their previous album, Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys expanded their parameters yet again, melding cutting-edge hip-hop with slinky jazz, butt-wiggling funk, weepy classical, and combustive punk rock.

Labcabincalifornia showcases the production talents of a then virtually unknown J Dilla. The change in the Pharcyde between the group's first and second albums can best be summed up by the variation in album covers.

Melt My Eyez See Your Future arrives as Denzel Curry’s most mature and ambitious album to date. 

Much about Beat Bop is shrouded in mystery. Who really produced it? Why was Jean-Michel Basquiat relegated from rapper on the track to drawing the cover and labels? What are they actually rapping about for most of the ten-minute length?

Freddie Gibbs is the product of violent, drug-laden streets but unlike most rappers with similar resumes, he brings the block to the booth without inhibition or an exaggerated rap persona.

Nehruviandoom is Bishop Nehru's debut album. Produced by Metal Fingers and featuring MF Doom vocals on several tracks, it's a compact nine track, 30 minute long player.

808s and Heartbreak is the groundbreaking album from Kanye West.

Bobby Digital Presents: The Juice Crew is a once-in-a-generation collaboration that unites two of hip-hop’s most influential forces: RZA—visionary architect of the Wu-Tang Clan—and the legendary Juice Crew, whose pioneering MCs laid the foundation for lyricism, storytelling, and New York rap cult...