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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'

Daddy Grace (aka Born Allah) is on a mission to regain the “grown-man bars” he sees fading as Hip-hop moves further away from its Golden Age. Rallying along his crusade is fellow veteran rapper, Sadat X, in their latest collaborative project “Black Cream”.

The duo provides an adequate remix of the track listed on Grace's No Hip Hop For Grown Men—adequate in the sense that it isn't the average adjustments here and there, but a complete revamp, which includes fresh & funky instrumentals catered by BLDNGBLK. Also, Grace is gracious enough to include fresh lines as well as polished razor-edge openers ala Sadat X's to kick it off.

Sadat's iconic Brand Nubian style blends perfectly atop the track's upbeat, f

Up and coming rapper Chase Allen is making his way from relative obscurity to the forefront of the Hip Hop community. The Los Angeles-based artist has just released to stunning visuals for “Nothing To Lose,” which chronicles his tumultuous journey from growing up in poverty in his hometown of Philly to his emerging success. In Part II of the Chase Allen interview, he addresses the topics of technology, the power music can have, what’s on the horizon, and honest lyricism. 

RAPstation (Kyle Eustice): We are flooded with new artists every day in this tech-heavy era. Does the internet make it harder to get recognized or easier? 

Chase Allen: I think the internet makes it a lot harder because everybody can put out music now. Anybody can