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.

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Bob Dylan’s ‘Love And Theft’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Where ‘Time Out Of Mind’ was drenched in murky, reverb-heavy production, ‘Love And Theft’ was something else entirely: dry, warm, well-written and self-produced under the pseudonym Jack Frost.

Jay-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Jay-Z made damn good albums before ‘The Blueprint,’ as well as some afterwards. But his sixth studio affair remains the album where everything came together.