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Prince: The Rainbow Children
The problem with labeling artists as geniuses is that sometimes they take the tag seriously, using it as a license to indulge every whim. After all, who's to question a genius? Prince lived up to the
Timbaland & Magoo: Indecent Proposal
Since revolutionizing hip-hop production with his work on Missy Elliott's 1997 debut Supa Dupa Fly, Timbaland has attained a remarkable level of critical and commercial success, rapidly ascending to t
Dungeon Family: Even In Darkness
Before the 1994 release of OutKast's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, Southern hip-hop tended to be ghettoized either as booty music with limited crossover appeal (à la 2 Live Crew) or as psychotic ga
Busta Rhymes: Genesis
Perhaps the most overexposed hip-hop artist of the '90s, Busta Rhymes has always been more of an entertainer than a rapper or lyricist. A carnival barker, hype man, human cartoon, and one-man brand al
Smash Mouth: Smash Mouth
As a means of reaching the largest possible audience without relying on radio, Moby famously licensed every track on his marvelous 1999 album Play for use in television commercials. That move spoke vo
Cypress Hill: Stoned Raiders
Nothing kills a vibrant, subversive musical genre quite like canonization, and while hip-hop doesn't yet possess its own Experience Music Project or Hall Of Fame, it is showing signs of descent down t
No Doubt: Rock Steady
It took five years for No Doubt to release a follow-up to its best-selling 1995 breakthrough Tragic Kingdom, and the result was Return Of Saturn, a massively hyped, modestly successful, infuriatingly
De La Soul: AOI: Bionix
Since parting ways with visionary producer Prince Paul following the release of 1993's Buhloone Mindstate, De La Soul has fought a largely winning battle to age gracefully in a genre that worships you
Nate Dogg: Music & Me
Like many of his fellow Death Row exiles, Nate Dogg drifted toward obscurity following the label's widely documented fall, popping up here and there and releasing a poorly marketed and distributed sol
Wu-Tang Clan: Iron Flag
Arriving amidst a sea of forgettable Wu-Tang Clan solo albums and sketchy, only tangentially related side projects, Ghostface Killah's 2000 breakthrough Supreme Clientele generated the sort of excitem
Nas: Stillmatic
Following the murders of feuding megastars Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, hip-hop was inundated with idealistic rhetoric about stopping the violence and/or increasing the peace. But everyone loves
Chris Isaak: Always Got Tonight
For such an enduring figure, Chris Isaak remains tough to pin down. A survivor of an '80s new-traditionalist-rock movement that never quite took root, he's become something of a man out of time, conti
Alanis Morissette: Under Rug Swept
On Clem Snide's "Moment In The Sun," singer Eef Barzelay chronicles pop stars' self-obsession ("When it's my moment in the sun / oh, how beautiful I'll be") on his way to the laceratingly sarcastic cl
Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
In the struggle to make herself heard, 22-year-old singer and pianist Norah Jones has two powerful weapons at her disposal: youth and an interesting history. (She hails from Texas, never a hotbed of j
Indigo Girls: Become You
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have always pulled Indigo Girls in two separate directions, with the former's raspy stridency competing for time and tone with the latter's syrupy-sweet melancholy. In recent
Eels: Souljacker
Although he's just approaching his 40th birthday, Mark Oliver Everett (a.k.a. E) has already spent much of his musical career grappling with age, decay, and mortality. First working solo on albums lik
Bob Mould: Modulate
When former Hüsker Dü and Sugar singer-songwriter Bob Mould released The Last Dog & Pony Show in 1998, he announced that he was about to close the book on his signature sound, retiring the shimmering,
N*E*R*D: In Search Of...
One of the great ironies of The Neptunes' increasingly surreal journey through pop superstardom is that the production duo's sound, while ubiquitous and incredibly popular, isn't particularly commerci
R. Kelly & Jay-Z: The Best Of Both Worlds
An unprecedented album-length collaboration between rap and R&B superstars, The Best Of Both Worlds unites the sensibilities of Jay-Z and R. Kelly, two acts who share more than just healthy bank accou
Ol' Dirty Bastard: The Trials And Tribulations Of Russell Jones
Arriving at the height of Ol' Dirty Bastard's drug-fueled notoriety, 1999's N**** Please was either an avant-garde masterpiece that challenged traditional concepts of what constitutes rap music, a sel
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