Hip-Hop Anniversaries, Part V

Recounting Some More Classic Hip-Hop Cuts Released Over the Years

35 Year Anniversary (1982)

Kurtis Blow - Tough

30 Year Anniversary (1987)

UTFO - Lethal

Fat Boyz - Crushin'

LL Cool J - Bad (Bigger and Deffer)

Heavy D. & the Boyz - Living Large

The Skinny Boyz - Skinny & Proud

 

Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Rock the House

Dana Dane - Dana Dane With Fame

Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

Too Short - Born to Mack

Kool Moe Dee - How You Like Me Now

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full

 

25 Year Anniversary (1992)

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brotha

 

Ultramagnetic M.C.'s - Funk Your Head Up

 

Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months, & 2 Days in the Life Of...

Ice Cube - The Predator

Juice Crew - Live & Let Die

 

Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts, & Hip-Hop 

 

Da Lench Mob - Guerillas in the Mist

 

Das EFX - Dead Serious

Gang Starr - Daily Operation

 

EPMD - Business Never Personal 

Too Short - Shorty the Pimp

Redman - Whut? Thee Album

UGK - Too Hard to Swallow

The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde

 

Dr. Dre - The Chronic

 

 

20 Year Anniversary (1997)

Capone & Norrega - The War Report

 

Rakim - The 18th Letter

EPMD - Back in Business

 

Mase - Harlem World

 

Wyclef Jean - Wycleaf Jean Presents The Carnival

Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes

 

Common - One Day It'll All Make Sense

 

Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus

Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night

Puff Daddy - No Way Out

 

Jay-Z - In My Lifetime, Vol. 1

 

Wu Tang Clan - Wu Tang Clan Forever

 

Scarface - The Untouchable 

Organized  Konfusion - The Equinox

Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death 

 

15 Year Anniversary (2002)

People Under the Stairs - O.S.T. (Original Sound Track)

Nas - God's Son

Scarface - The Fix

 

Slum Village - Trinity (Past, Present, & Future)

Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly

 

 El-P - Fantastic Damage

Canibus - Mic Club, The Curriculum

 

 Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse

Talib Kweli - Quality

 

 The Roots - Phrenology

 

Clipse - Lord Willin'

 

Field Mob - From tha Roota to tha Toota

 

 Eminem - The Eminem Show

10-Year Anniversary (2007)

Little Brother - Getback

Kanye West - Graduation

Talib Kweli - Eardrum

Common - Finding Forever

El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead

Jay-Z - American Gangster

Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens

Devin tha Dude - Waiting to Inhale

UGK - Underground Kingz

Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth

Pharoahe Monch - Desire

Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams 

 

5-Year Anniversary (2012)

Big K.R.I.T. - Live From the Underground

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

Nas - Life is Good

Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music

Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor II, the Great American Rap Album

Skyzoo - A Dream Deferred

 

Brother Ali - Mourning in American and Dreaming in Color

Ab-Soul - Control System

 

Sean Price - Mic Tyson

Were there any albums that you feel that I had missed? Please comment below (remember, albums must be from 5 calender-year intervals going back from 2017).