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Milestones: Now by Maxwell
Maxwell made an album about commitment with another man’s instruments and another woman’s famous song. It still sounds like his.
Aug 14
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Shatter the Standards
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Tai Lawson
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Milestones: Never Too Much by Luther Vandross
An ex-backup singer’s debut built entirely on romantic devotion, as though no other subject existed, and very much proves the bet right.
Aug 12
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Shatter the Standards
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Imani Raven
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Milestones: Watch the Throne by Kanye West & JAŸ-Z
The luxury-rap era’s high-water, built under a paranoid lockdown at the Mercer Hotel by two rappers coasting through an expensive hour, with a core that…
Aug 8
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Shatter the Standards
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Owen Baptiste
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Milestones: 8701 by Usher
The Atlanta R&B prodigy’s third album was gutted by Napster and rebuilt by a committee of hitmakers who bet everything on his voice over his…
Aug 7
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Shatter the Standards
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Kendra Oluwaseyi
7
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Milestones: King’s Disease II by Nas
A Queensbridge rapper and a Fontana producer locked the door, kicked everyone out, and made one of the strongest Nas albums in his discography.
Aug 6
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Shatter the Standards
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Phil
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Milestones: Stretchin’ Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band by Bootsy’s Rubber Band
The album where P-Funk’s wildest bassist stopped playing behind other people’s concepts and discovered he had his own.
Aug 6
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Shatter the Standards
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Imani Raven
2
Milestones: The House Is Burning by Isaiah Rashad
TDE’s first Southern signee returns from five years inside addiction with the bounciest album of his career. He swears it is his saddest yet, and he is…
Jul 30
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Shatter the Standards
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Phil
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Milestones: Ridin’ Dirty by UGK
Jive Records put out UGK’s third album without a video, a single, or a press plan, and it went gold on word of mouth anyway.
Jul 30
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Shatter the Standards
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Asa McKenzie
4
Milestones: The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are by The 2 Live Crew
The first Southern rap debut to cross the gold line did it through the back of a promoter’s car, one Black-owned record store at a time. A clerk in…
Jul 21
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Shatter the Standards
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Brandon O'Sullivan
3
Milestones: The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein by Parliament
Less than a year after the Mothership landed, George Clinton cloned himself an army, and Parliament’s fifth album turned funk’s silliest premise into…
Jul 20
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Shatter the Standards
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Imani Raven
2
Milestones: Aaliyah by Aaliyah
One of the most influential R&B albums of the 2000s, it was commercially sinking when she died. Everything it became happened without her.
Jul 17
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Shatter the Standards
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Kenya DuRant
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Milestones: Savage Mode by 21 Savage & Metro Boomin
21 Savage’s first hit, paired with the most committed strip-down of Metro Boomin’s career. Atlanta trap as the after-part of feeling.
Jul 15
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Shatter the Standards
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Randy
3
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