These rappers paid homage to their favorite old-school jazz and R&B albums with their iconic LP cover art.

Here is “AllHipHop’s Top 100 Hip-Hop Albums Of 2020 – From Old School To Now School.” By Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur, Dally Wis, illseed, Houston Williams, and a few friends.

Considered the Godfather of Gangsta Rap, his cover art incorporated hood sketch comics drawn in an old school graffiti style on a bright yellow canvas.

Although the rap genre of today is a completely different beast than that of yesteryear, these albums will always deserve your attention.

That’s because rather than eating paint, like you did as a first and second grader, he draws classic hip hop (and occasionally punk) album covers, including Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, Enter the ...

Stationed beside a subway entrance was an 8-year-old rapper, Hetep BarBoy, who, accompanied by his father, was selling CDs of his album. “I prefer old-school hip-hop,” Hetep said.

Great Rap Hits from 1980 and Greatest Rap Hits from 1981 (sometimes called “Vol. Two” to distinguish it, though those words are nowhere on its cover or label).

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DJ Polo from the hip-hop duo Kool G Rap and DJ Polo died, according to his family, on July 27. No details on the cause of death were given.

Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch, Megan Thee Stallion and DaBaby have blazed Billboard, but Grammy voters gave the young hip-hop stars the cold shoulder in the best rap album category, instead, nominating ...

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