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Amplified is the 1999 debut solo album by Kamaal Fareed, better known as Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest. Born Jonathan Davis, this album features the hit songs "Vivrant Thing", "Breathe And Stop", "Let's Ride" and "Things U Do". The CD features a hidden track after track 12 called "Do It, See It, Be It" and it has been isolated as its own MP3.

Beyond This World "Best & Rare" is a 2000 European compilation by American rap group the Jungle Brothers. It focuses on material from the group's two albums they did for Warner Bros. Records, along with a few Warner Bros. songs not on albums.

Black On Both Sides is the 1999 debut solo album by Brooklyn rapper Mos Def. Rawkus are the loyalists.

Illmatic is the 1994 debut album by New York rapper Nasir Jones, who is known simply as Nas. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara Jones, this was released by Columbia Records.

Make The Music 2000 is the 1999 debut album from Rozell Manely Brown, who is better known as Rahzel The Godfather Of Noise, or simply as Rahzel, a former member of the rap group The Roots. This was released on MCA Records during the same year The Roots released Things Fall Apart. This is an enhanced CD which featured the video for "All I Know". The enhanced portion is only with the lossless version of the CD.

Where janet., Ms. Jackson's third blockbuster album, implied sexuality with its teasing cover and seductive grooves, its sequel, The Velvet Rope, is sexually explicit, offering tales of bondage, body piercing, and bisexuality

From Where??? is the 1996 debut album from Virginia rapper Shaquan Ian Lewis, who was better known as Mad Skillz. The title of the album was often the response when he told people where he was from, as being from Virginia in the mid 1990's was a bit of an oddity. Things have changed a lot since then with people such as Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, and Missy Elliott all calling Virginia home. From Where??? was considered one of the best debut hip-hop albums of its time. Mad Skillz would later shorten his moniker to just Skillz. This item was released by Big Beat via Atlantic.

Elton John announces ‘Revamp’, which will be released on April 6th by Virgin EMI. Bringing together a carefully curated selection of the world’s biggest and best artists, ‘Revamp’ sees Elton John and co-writer Bernie Taupin’s best loved songs reinterpreted by some of contemporary music’s most vital talents. The album spans a breath-taking array of styles, shining a light on Elton’s unparalleled influence across popular music of all genres, ranging from Urban (Q-Tip, Mary J Blige) to Rock (The Killer, Queens Of The Stone Age), Pop (Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga) to Dance (P!nk & Logic).

Robert Glasper's mission of using modern jazz as a foundation and launchpoint for exploring multiple facets of contemporary Black music returns with the third installment of Black Radio, nearly a decade after the second. Notably removed from the equation though, is the "Experiment" of the first two iterations. With Glasper as the individual anchor here, Black Radio III shifts both textually and tonally away from the idea of his jazz band backing some hip-hop and R&B musicians and more into a realm of Glasper's piano-playing and compositional hand guiding a melange of all-stars through a range of exciting material.