You Aughta Know: The first-ever magazine covers for Jay-Z (Issue 3/Summer '96) and Eminem (Issue 18/1999)-Spin liked Em's A Clockwork Orange treatment so much they bit the concept wholesale. Also, the Rawkus special (Issue 12/March/April '98), which came packaged with vinyl.
The first-ever magazine covers for Jay-Z (Issue 3/Summer '96) and Eminem (Issue 18/1999)-Spin liked Em's A Clockwork Orange treatment so much they bit the concept wholesale. Also, the Rawkus special (Issue 12/March/April '98), which came packaged with vinyl.
The first-ever magazine covers for Jay-Z (Issue 3/Summer '96) and Eminem (Issue 18/1999)-Spin liked Em's A Clockwork Orange treatment so much they bit the concept wholesale. Also, the Rawkus special (Issue 12/March/April '98), which came packaged with vinyl.

LEGACYFormer E-I-C (and graf legend) KET went on to join the launch team behind this little publication called Complex. True to Stress's activism roots, other key staff members went on to more serious non-music-journalism endeavors (e.g. former Senior Editor Jee Kim now works at the grantmaking Surdna Foundation).

RATINGS We respect its earnest ambition to cover political issues, but Newsweek it wasn't.