J Dilla

Masters of production.

While album titles are unique to most artists, there have been many times in hip-hop’s 50-year history where rappers share the same names for their projects.

The albums set to make a mark in 2023.

An all-star salute to hip-hop's fallen soldiers.

2016 was lit. With a half-decade of retrospection, XXL highlights 104 hip-hop albums turning five in 2021.

New heat.

That new-new.

Their music lives on.

XXL ranks the best posthumous hip-hop albums of all time.

Flow like water.

Crème de la crème, homie.

A list that matters.