Mos Def’s Debut Solo Album ‘Black On Both Sides’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

October 12, 2024 Jesse Ducker

Mos Def Debut Solo Album Black On Both Sides

On his debut solo LP, Mos Def implores his audience to be proactive in helping hip-hop music put its best foot forward, and he leads by example.

Mos Def’s ‘The New Danger’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

October 12, 2024 Daryl McIntosh

Mos Def’s second solo LP is one of hip-hop’s most ambitious presentations that finds him advancing his vintage freestyle type of delivery while charting new territory with his Black Jack Johnson rap/rock outfit.

Mos Def’s ‘The Ecstatic’ Turns 15 | Album Anniversary

June 8, 2024 Jesse Ducker

Influenced by MF DOOM’s unique lyrical content and flow, ‘The Ecstatic’ still very much feels like a truly Mos Def album.

Black Star’s ‘Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

September 23, 2023 Jesse Ducker

Black Star Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star

‘Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star’ sounds quintessentially New York, but the messages and the sound throughout the album give it universal appeal.

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.