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Milestones: The Off-Season by J. Cole
The rapper who told the world he just be rapping went ahead and proved it. A man trying to outrun his own comfort keeps tripping over the truth.
May 14
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Kamaria Jules
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Milestones: De La Soul Is Dead by De La Soul
The hippie costume never fit, so they burned it. Three guys from Amityville built a whole album out of the bonfire.
May 14
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Shatter the Standards
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Harry Brown
7
Milestones: Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper
A 23-year-old put mattresses in a Chicago studio, invited everyone he knew, and made the decade’s most generous rap album.
May 13
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Nia Lattimore
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Milestones: Everybody Loves the Sunshine by Roy Ayers Ubiquity
The jazz-funk crossover album that jazz purists wanted to bury became the most sampled four minutes of the 1970s.
May 12
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Shatter the Standards
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Imani Raven
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Milestones: Dr. Octagonecologyst by Dr. Octagon
The weirdest rap album of 1996 was made in a basement that smelled like glue. Thirty years later, nobody’s sure who should get the most credit for it.
May 7
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Koda Lin
6
Milestones: Survivor by Destiny’s Child
A comeback from public humiliation that sold ten million copies. Beyoncé just needed two other voices to make it look like teamwork.
May 1
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Shatter the Standards
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Jamila W.
4
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Milestones: Just As I Am by Bill Withers
A factory worker’s debut that sings about crooked preachers, absent fathers, and a man killing himself—and got played on The Tonight Show anyway.
May 1
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Renée Holloway
6
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Milestones: Cooleyhighharmony by Boyz II Men
Four Philadelphia teenagers sang their way onto Motown with nothing but harmonies and nerve—and gave early-‘90s R&B the vocal group album it had stopped…
Apr 30
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Shatter the Standards
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Imani Raven
3
Milestones: Exmilitary by Death Grips
Nobody asked for it, nobody paid for it, and nobody who heard it could stop talking about it. Sacramento’s free mixtape broke hip-hop’s brain.
Apr 25
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Shatter the Standards
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Devon Kai Brooks
3
Milestones: Lemonade by Beyoncé
The most public marriage in American pop became the occasion for the most complete album Beyoncé has ever made, one where private fury and Black grief…
Apr 23
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Shatter the Standards
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Ulani Iona
13
4
Milestones: All for You by Janet Jackson
After her darkest and most confessional album, Jackson came back grinning, newly single, and talking very specifically about what she wanted done to her…
Apr 16
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Shatter the Standards
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Maya LeRoux
6
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Milestones: Ice Cream Man by Master P
The first album to prove that a New Orleans rapper could own his masters and still go platinum. Percy Miller bet on distribution, not bars.
Apr 16
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Shatter the Standards
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Koda Lin
4
1
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