The Blueprint is the sixth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released September 11, 2001 on Roc-A-Fella Records in the United States. It's release was set a week earlier than initially planned in order to combat bootlegging.
Illmatic is the crown jewel of the mid-90s classics that still define the genre. Unlike Biggies Ready to Die or Jay-Zs Reasonable Doubt, Illmatic was the game-changer that forever transformed the landscape of East Coast hip-hop.
good kid, m.A.A.d city is the major label debut from Kendrick Lamar on Top Dawg, Aftermath and Interscope Records. The concept album follows the story of Lamar's teenage experiences and gang lifestyle of his native Compton.
Vundabar’s Good Old is a scrappy map of the band between breakthroughs. Acoustic reworks sit beside raw, elastic older sessions, catching punk, art-pop, grunge, and indie rock in mid-combustion.