Random Axe’s Eponymous Debut Album ‘Random Axe’ Turns 15 | Album Anniversary

June 8, 2026 Jesse Ducker

Random Axe Eponymous Debut Album Random Axe Turns 15

Though perfectly imperfect, the album brought three superstars—Black Milk, Guilty Simpson and Sean Price—together to record a project solely focused on giving their audience raw hip-hop.

Guilty Simpson’s ‘OJ Simpson’ Turns 15 | Album Anniversary

May 17, 2025 Jesse Ducker

‘OJ Simpson’ meshes both of Guilty and Madlib’s sensibilities, and the result feels like a Blaxploitation-fueled fever dream.

Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson’s ‘Dice Game’ Turns 10 | Album Anniversary

November 5, 2022 Jesse Ducker

Apollo Brown Guilty Simpson’s Dice Game 2012

A true hip-hop masterclass, ‘Dice Game’ finds Guilty Simpson and Apollo Brown succeeding by playing to their strengths and not complicating matters, dropping sincere rhymes over well-crafted beats.

Wilco’s ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Twin feelings of stability and disorientation define the band’s fourth studio affair, with Jeff Tweedy’s singular, yearning voice giving these fifty-one minutes their gravity.

Tori Amos’ ‘Strange Little Girls’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Although the seed of ‘Strange Little Girls’ began with songs by men, it’s really in the end, as it always is with Tori Amos, all about the girls.

WC And The Maad Circle’s Debut Album ‘Ain’t A Damn Thang Changed’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

The group’s debut LP may not be the best-known or most acclaimed album of hip-hop’s golden era, but its relevance and impact endure three-and-a-half decades later.