The most memorable album covers tell a story in itself or, at the very least, illustrate what the album may sound like. The Beastie Boys’ debut, Licensed to Ill (1986), and its busted down jet ...

Iconic '90s Hip-Hop Duo Performs Together for the First Time in Years originally appeared on Parade. Back like they never ...

Naturally, the first ingredient to a classic album cover is that the album itself will stand ... the essence of gangsta rap in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, but The Pharcyde was the first hip-hop ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this feature. When it comes to the essence of an album, oftentimes the cover art is just as captivating as the music. Since the popularization of hip-hop ...

Hip-hop artists in particular have used album art to make ... The result is cover art steeped in nostalgia that plays off of Gibbs’ use of '90s R&B samples like Mary J Blige’s “My Life ...

Dating back to its earliest ties to graffiti culture, the visual component has always played a large part in hip-hop culture. Today's album art mostly serves as thumbtacks for NahRight posts or ...

Visuals have always played a prominent role in hip hop culture. In the early days, it was graffiti (as decreed by DJ Afrika Bambaataa); Since then, the music video and the album cover have ...

However, no one can deny the richness of the genre’s albums. Join BLACK ENTERPRISE as we take you down memory lane with these eight historic hip-hop album covers.

From groups like the Wu-Tang Clan to A Tribe Called Quest, let’s look back at some of the top 25 hip-hop albums of the '90s era.

So, why doesn’t hip-hop have many cover albums? Part of the answer may stem ... own unique twists on both Nas’s rhymes and the ’90s masterclass beats; Elzhi deftly re-worded some of the ...

but it’s still filled with dope songs coming from one of the best hip-hop groups of all time, Public Enemy. This album is so underrated. Yeah, I know it was hard to stand out during the ‘90s ...

Ground-Breaking ‘90s Hip-Hop Jazz Act Resurfaces After Shocking Health Crisis first appeared on Parade on May 31, 2025 This ...