Rap US Plakater: from Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It to Yeat - Afterlyfe

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• ◆Nas released Illmatic on 19 April 1994 and The Source awarded it a perfect five-mic rating, a score the magazine had never given a debut album before.
• ◆2Pac's All Eyez on Me, released on 13 February 1996, was the first double-length solo studio album in hip-hop and was later certified Diamond by the RIAA.
• ◆Dr. Dre's 2001, released in 1999, codified the G-funk sound and served as the launchpad for a then-unknown Eminem.
• ◆Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP sold more than 1.7 million copies in its first week in 2000, becoming the fastest-selling solo rap album ever, and was certified Diamond in 2011.
• ◆50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin', released in February 2003, was one of the era's biggest debuts and turned him into a global crossover star.
• ◆Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak in 2008 leaned on auto-tuned melody and melancholy, a template that shaped much of the melodic rap that followed.
• ◆Kendrick Lamar won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music for DAMN., the first non-classical, non-jazz record ever to receive the award.
• ◆J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive went platinum with no guest features, reviving the 'platinum with no features' badge of honour.
• ◆Travis Scott's Astroworld, released on 3 August 2018, spawned the smash Sicko Mode and became one of the defining rap albums of the streaming era.
• ◆Juice WRLD's posthumous Legends Never Die debuted at number one in July 2020 with the biggest streaming week of the year, around 422 million on-demand US streams.
• ◆Tyler, the Creator's Igor debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in 2019 and won Best Rap Album at the 2020 Grammy Awards, his first Grammy win.
• ◆Ice Cube launched his solo career with AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted in 1990 after leaving N.W.A, one of the defining protest records of West Coast rap.