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COOLIO – GANGSTA’S PARADISE (1995) With “Gangsta’s Paradise,” Coolio owns one of the most commercially successful singles in rap history. It not only held on to the number one spot on the United States’ Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks—making it the biggest single [...] |
CANDYMAN – AIN’T NO SHAME IN MY GAME (1990) Who would have thought that the skinny jheri curl-sporting kid at the forefront of the N.W.A. and the Posse album cover would emerge as a pop rapper a few years later, worlds apart from the guys [...] |
BIG DADDY KANE – IT’S A BIG DADDY THING (1989) Big Daddy Kane was just getting started. By late 1989, his lauded debut album, Long Live the Kane, was certified gold. But with his sophomore effort, It’s a Big Daddy Thing, released less than a month [...] |
Paris never had it easy. The Californian rapper’s first album, 1990’s The Devil Made Me Do It, was stifled by an MTV ban on the video for its title track and first single. His second album, 1992’s Sleeping with the Enemy, was stifled by withdrawal of major-label [...] |
EPMD – STRICTLY BUSINESS (1988) If a list is to be made of the biggest overachievers in rap music history, the duo of Erick “E Double” Sermon and Parrish “PMD” Smith—collectively known as EPMD (Erick and Parrish Making Dollars)—might be close to the top of it. Lyrically, neither man was [...] |
