An artist’s album cover is arguably the most critical piece when rolling out a new project. Whether it’s a debut album or a performer’s swan song or anywhere in between, there’s always a special ...

Hip-hop culture has made it to 50 years, but that doesn’t mean the celebration stops. To its credit, hip-hop culture has made it to 50 years, but that doesn’t mean the celebration stops. Nope, hip-hop ...

In the 50 plus years of hip-hop's existence, there have been a myriad of rap album covers, ranging from the good, the bad, the controversial and everything in between. While there's been a sharp ...

Eye-catching cover art goes a long way in enticing rap fans to give an album a spin. The artwork tends to capture the essence of a rapper's music through imagery that matches the vibe of the music ...

Kendrick Lamar has consistently been known as one of the world’s most prominent storytellers and a rooted artist in hip-hop’s fertile history. GNX is an immersion into 90s hip-hop and R&B-the golden ...

In his 2004 Pitchfork review, Nick Sylvester wrote that MM..FOOD was “an attempt to make good on Doom’s almost fascist conceit to restore rap’s golden age despite its loss of innocence.” The record’s ...

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Lil Kim just earned another major accolade nearly thirty years after she changed the sound and style of rap. Billboard has officially ranked her debut album Hard Core as the greatest hip hop album ...

AllHipHop has put together a list of the best HIp-Hop album covers ever created! Supa Dupa Fly as an album cover was a stunt on the industry like no woman had ever done. No… the artistic direction ...

AllHipHop has put together a list of the best HIp-Hop album covers ever created! It is hard to imagine this, but most rappers from the 80s and 90s were teens when they came out. However, none of them ...