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Featuring Ice-T, Johnny Gill, Guy, Keith Sweat, and Troop & LeVert with Queen Latifah, the soundtrack remains a thrilling artifact of early ‘90s hip-hop, new jack swing and R&B music.
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‘The Trinity Session’ is commonly considered the band’s masterpiece, but a solid case can be made that ‘Lay It Down’ is actually their finest effort to date.
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Rather than seducing you with captivating melodies and inventive arrangements like they had in previous work, Radiohead just goes for the throat on their eighth studio affair.
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Fifty years on, Scaggs’ seventh studio album is still the gold standard for anyone trying to make music that’s slick and soulful, that connects with a crowd but still feels personal.
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The band’s fourth studio affair stands as one of a handful of seminal albums to form the backbone of ’90s “alternative,” as the college rock/modern rock genre came to be known.
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A cult classic for decades that has continued to attract more widespread appreciation over the years, Baby Huey’s only album suggests he possessed the makings of a full-fledged star.
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On his debut album, the Virginia-bred emcee delivers an often-spectacular performance over jazzy and soulful tracks provided by some of the most skilled beatmakers of the mid-1990s.
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