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In what seems more like a dream than reality, legendary hip-hop duo Eric B. and Rakim have just announced they intend to renunite this year. Earlier this week, the native New Yorkers made the announcement on Twitter in a series of posts playing off the current presidential between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Their debut album, 1987’s Paid In Full, featured “Eric B. is President” and they are asking American voters to elect him as the country’s new leader.

In one Tweet, they wrote "Vote 

Run DMC's classic hip hop holiday anthem, Christmas In Hollis, is being re-released in a special, limited edition vinyl package, just weeks before Christmas.

Legacy Recordings, the branch of Sony Music dedicated to preserving and re-releasing classic rock, pop, and hip hop, will be re-releasing Run DMC's seminal Christmas tune on a limited edition, 12" vinyl picture disc, which will be decorated with an image of the band on one side and will feature the group's logo on the other. The record will also feature the previously unreleased instrumental version of Christmas in Hollis.

Christmas in Hollis was originally released in 1987. The Rick Rubin produced track was reasonably popular when it was originally released,

This day in Hip-hop recognizes the anniversaries of three iconic albums, and if you've been keeping track with our retrospect features, you already know that this marks another installment to the perfect throwback playlist, and come on, we know we all need one.

Expansion Team (2001)

• An underground Hip-hop group kicks off this installment with the notable second studio album from West Coast's Dilated Peoples, which represents the combined talents of Evidence, Rakaa, and DJ Babu. Widely claimed as the rap group's most memorable collective, the album lists their hit-single, “Worst Comes to Worst”, as well as showcasing the production skills of DJ Premier, The Alchemist, Da Beatminerz, Questlove of The

Today in Hip-hop marks nineteen years of Hip-hop supergroup's The Firm's debut and only studio album, The Album.

The idea of initiating such collective originated from prominent rapper Nas, manager Steve Stoute, as well as Dr. Dre and Trackmasters. When the group assembled, the original roster featured the combined talents of Nas, AZ, Foxy Brown, and Cormega, the same artists appearing on Nas' “Affirmative Action” off his 1996 album, It Was Written. Nature was later added to the line-up as Cormega announced his exclusion.

The Album holds concepts thematic to the “mind of a mafia”, as well as “the life of a gangsta”. Produced by the likes of Dre, Chris “The Glove” Taylor, a

Not to be confused with the popular R&B trio, the TLC we're talking about stands for “Trap Life Crazy” and represents the combined talents of Slimm Body and Yung Blow, forming the two-man sensation from Nashville, TN.

Claiming to be brothers since their younger days, TLC's music anchors upon years of musical partnership, as well as both knowledge and experience regarding the street life. After years of gaining prominence in the local scene, as well as taking their hustle game beyond their hometown, TLC release their latest project in the form of their Money Like the 80's mixtape.

The collective catalogues 15 tracks, all of which asserting powerful sounds orchestrated through masterful production, and of course, hard-hittin

Known as Childish Gambino of Hip-hop and R&B, Donald Glover the well-versed actor, this multi-talented young artist is currently taking his career to a galaxy far, far away, as Lando Calrissian.

Astronomical news indeed, the announcement dropped Friday, October 21^st, via StarWars.com, stating that the 33-year-old multi-dimensional artist will be working alongside Alden Ehrenrich (Blue Jasmine), in re-imagining the familiar galactic partnership of Han Solo and Calrissian in a still-untitled, new Star Wars film.

Glover's role visualizes that of a younger Lando Calrissian, who first came to be introduced in earlier films as the cunning swindler closely tied to infamous space smuggler Han Solo. Whereas Billy Dee Williams played the character'