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50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin', Kanye West's The College Dropout, Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle and more.

Eminem, Big Sean, Future, Tyga and more get in on the lyrical synergy.

From good to greatest.

Bun B gets into a shoot-out protecting his home from a masked man that showed up randomly demanding valuables.

Though mixtapes reigned supreme in 2009, these LPs delivered just as much.

The heart of hip-hop's blog era.

Dust off your Discman.

From A$AP Mob to YoungBoy Never Broke Again, XXL breaks down the meanings behind rappers' abbreviated aliases.