Hip-Hop Anniversaries, Part VI

Further Paying Homage to Some Hip-Hop Classics

35 Year Anniversary (1983)

Whodini - Whodini

Too Short - Players

Malcolm McLaren - D'ya Like Scratchin'

30 Year Anniversary (1988)

NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Slick Rick -The Great Adventures of Slick Rick

EMPD - Strictly Business

Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader

MC Lyte - Lyte as a Rock

Biz Markie - Goin Off

Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane

DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince - He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper

Run DMC - Tougher than Leather

25 Year Anniversary (1993)

Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu (36 Chambers)

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate

Naughty by Nature - 19 Naughty III


Scarface - The World is Yours


Too Short - Get in Where You Fit In


The Roots - Organix

Del the Funky Homosapien - No Need For Alarm

Lords of the Underground  - Here Come the Lords

KRS-One - Return of the Boom-Bap

Black Moon - Enter Da Stage

The Alkaholics - 21 & Over

Onyx - Bacdafucup

Masta Ace - Slaughtahouse

Tupac - Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.

Souls of Mischief - '93 'til Infinity

Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)

20 Year Anniversary (1998)

Outkast - Aquemini

Blackstar - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Blackstar

DMX - It's Dark and Hell is Hot

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Big Pun - Capital Punishment

Jay Z - Vol 2...Hard Knock Life

Gangstarr - Moment of Truth

Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision

Pete Rock - Sole Survivor

Goodie Mob - Still Standing

A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement

15 Year Anniversary (2003)

Little Brother - The Listening

MF Doom - Vaduville Villian

Spearkerboxxx/The Love Below

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Jay-Z - The Black Album

Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun

Jaylib - Champion Sound

10 Year Anniversary (2008)

Q-Tip - The Renaissance 

Elzhi - The Preface

Nas - Untitled

Murs - Murs for President

Jean Grae - Jeanius

5 Year Anniversary (2013)

J Cole - Born Sinner

Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

Childish Gambino - Because of the Internet

Big K.R.I.T. - King Remembered in Time

What other albums/mixtapes have I missed? Please leave suggestions in the comments section (must be 5-year intervals back from the current year (2018).