Music Remembering Hip-Hop’s Greatest Release Date

Okay, so it’s Tuesday and it hasn’t even occurred to you to go CD shopping, huh? You probably downloaded the latest T.I. album for free and thought, “Hmm, if this was better I’d think about investing the time to illegally downloading that Big Kuntry album too.” Truth is, hip hop wasn’t always this depressing.

In fact, 10 years ago, on September 29, 1998, members of the Complex staff stood on line at Tower Records because hip hop was sofa king hot that there were 5 highly anticipated albums from marquee acts all dropping at the same time and we had to have them all. It was like Kanye and 50’s totally totally hetero gladiator showdown last year, except even more manly. In honor of the anniversary, we decided to take a look back at the 5 landmark albums and see how they’ve held up a decade later…