‘Violator: The Album’ Turns 20 | Anniversary Retrospective

August 9, 2019 Daryl McIntosh

The late hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty is missed by an entire community and remembered as we listen to this exciting ensemble collaboration that helped close out the final summer of the ‘90s.

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Mariah Carey’s ‘Emotions’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

With her second studio affair, Carey crafted a record preoccupied with love not as fantasy, but as something capable of exhilaration, humiliation, spiritual rescue and profound loss.

Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colors’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

If ‘She’s So Unusual’ introduced Lauper as an explosion of personality, ‘True Colors’ asked what existed beneath it.

Casual’s ‘He Think He Raw’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With ‘He Think He Raw,’ Casual crafted a pure and unfiltered view of himself as an emcee, showcasing an underappreciated range that many listeners were not expecting.

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