In honor of Black History Month, I have compiled 5 of my favorite Hip-Hop albums released in the month of February in the last 2 decades!!! Now in the essence of time and attention spans I’ve limited this list to only 5 so bear with me. Now without further ado let's jump into it, Shall we? 5. YO! Bum Rush the Show - Public Enemy The album was released on February 10, 1987. The group's logo, a silhouette of a black man in a rifle's crosshairs, debuted on the album's cover. Yo! Bum Rush the Show features a sample-heavy sound by production team The Bomb Squad. Noted for being the voice for the voiceless Public Enemy’s debut release the group marketed itself as a distillation of black anger and resistance. Yo! Bum Rush the Show is cited as one of the most influential albums in hip hop history. 4. The Score – The Fugees The Score is the second and final studio album by the hip hop trio Fugees, released February 13, 1996. The album features a wide range of samples and instrumentation, with many aspects of alternative hip hop that would come to dominate the hip hop music scene in the mid-late 1990s. In addition to receiving favorable reviews upon its release, the album has garnered a considerable amount of acclaim over the years, with many music critics and publications noting it as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. 3. Things Fall Apart (When Things Fall Apart) – The Roots The fourth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released February 23, 1999. Upon its release, Things Fall Apart was widely regarded as their most fully realized work. It was praised widely for its sobering themes, sonic quality, and fluid, cohesive sequencing and lead MC Black Thought who in my opinion is an MC’s MC, has a hard, earnest voice that doesn't flow but bobs and weaves. With is precise production, irresistible beats, and smooth rhymes, few albums manage to simultaneously be this informative, political, and downright DOPE. 2. The College Dropout – Kanye West the debut studio album by American rapper Kanye West released on February 10, 2004. The album's production was handled by West and developed his "chipmunk soul" production style, which made use of sped-up, pitch shifted vocal samples from soul and R&B records, in addition to West's own drum programming, string accompaniment, and gospel choirs. Diverging from the then-dominant gangster persona in hip hop, West's lyrics concern themes of family, self-consciousness, materialism, religion, racism, and higher education. 1. The Chief – Jidenna debut studio album from artist Jidenna, released on February 17, 2017. The Chief received generally positive reviews from music critics. His use of hip-hop music to convey the story of an immigrant, he reaches across the globe to pull from seemingly disparate genres as he tells his tales. Surprisingly, Jidenna makes it work, commanding the listener's attention from start to finish. The project gave him an identity that any artist aspires to: someone who makes pretty good music. He’ll still have to continue to get listeners familiar with what makes the man behind the music tick, but The Chief is an admirable beginning to what appears to be a blossoming career. There you have it in no particular order 5 of my favorite Hip-Hop albums released in February throughout the last few decades. Let me know what you thought in the comments and as always LOVE LIVE LEARN
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