Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all
time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology featuring 50 of the most lauded controversial
and iconic hip-hop albums!From underground roots to mainstream popularity hip-hop's influence
on music and entertainment around the world has been nothing short of extraordinary. Ode to
Hip-Hop chronicles the journey with profiles of fifty albums that have defined expanded and
ultimately transformed the genre into what it is today. From 2 Live Crew's groundbreaking As
Nasty As They Wanna Be in 1989 to Cardi B's similarly provocative Invasion of Privacy almost
thirty years later and more Ode to Hip-Hop covers hip-hop from coast to coast. Organized by
decade and with sidebars on fashion mixtapes and key players throughout the result is a
comprehensive homage to hip-hop published just in time for the fiftieth anniversary. Enjoyed
in the club at a party through speakers or headphones--the albums in this book deserve to be
listened to again and again for the next fifty years and beyond.Albums featured: Kurtis Blow
(self-titled 1980) The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 1982) Run-D.M.C
(self-titled 1984) Hot Cool & Vicious (Salt-N-Pepa 1986) Paid in Full (Eric B. & Rakim
1987) Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A 1988) Lyte as a Rock (MC Lyte 1988) As Nasty as They
Wanna Be (2 Live Crew 1989) Mama Said Knock You Out (LL Cool J 1990) People's Instinctive
Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (A Tribe Called Quest 1990) The Chronic (Dr. Dre 1992)
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Wu-Tang Clan 1993) Black Reign (Queen Latifah 1993)
Doggystyle (Snoop Dogg 1993) Illmatic (Nas 1994) Ready to Die (The Notorious B.I.G. 1994)
The Diary (Scarface 1994) Funkdafied (Da Brat 1994) Mystic Stylez (Three 6 Mafia 1995)
Hard Core (Lil' Kim 1996) Ridin' Dirty (UGK 1996) All Eyez On Me (2Pac 1996) Supa Dupa
Fly (Missy Elliott 1997) Aquemini (Outkast 1998) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Lauryn
Hill 1998) It's Dark and Hell Is Hot (DMX 1998) Things Fall Apart (The Roots 1999) Da
Baddest B***h (Trina 2000) The Marshall Mathers LP (Eminem 2000) The Blueprint (JAY-Z
2001) Lord Willin' (Clipse 2002) Get Rich or Die Tryin' (50 Cent 2003) The College Dropout
(Kanye West 2004) Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (Young Jeezy 2005) King (T.I. 2006)
Lupe Fiasco's the Cool (Lupe Fiasco 2007) The Carter III (Lil Wayne 2008) The State vs.
Radric Davis (Gucci Mane 2009) Pink Friday (Nicki Minaj 2010) Watch the Throne (JAY-Z &
Kanye West 2011) Nothing Was the Same (Drake 2013) To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar
2015) DS2 (Future 2015) Culture (Migos 2017) Invasion of Privacy (Cardi B. 2018) Whack
World (Tierra Whack 2018) Eve (Rapsody 2019) City on Lock (City Girls 2020) Montero (Lil
Nas X 2021) Traumazine&l
