MC Lyte’s ‘Eyes On This’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

September 27, 2024 Jesse Ducker

Lyte’s lyrical abilities and confidence continued to expand with her second studio affair, as she showed no mercy towards those who dare step to her.

MC Lyte’s Debut Album ‘Lyte As A Rock’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

September 10, 2023 Jesse Ducker

On her debut album, MC Lyte uses her tremendous verbal ability, husky voice and conversational flow to create wicked rhymes to go along with the neck-snapping beats.

LEST WE FORGET: Revisiting MC Lyte’s ‘Ain’t No Other’ (1993)

January 3, 2019 Jesse Ducker

Our recurring ‘Lest We Forget’ series is devoted to celebrating albums that have been unfairly overlooked and warrant revisiting.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.