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Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright | ARTICLE

This story is from the April 28, 2011 issue of Rolling Stone. "Aw, Louis!" Adele groans. "Don't roll in the shit!" It's Saturday, around 2 p.m., and she's zipping through a small park along Alster Lake in...
February 10, 2012 3:50 PM ET
Remembering Aaliyah: 1979-2001 | ARTICLE

One late Saturday afternoon, just two weeks before her death, twenty-two-year-old Aaliyah walked from a black Mercedes-Benz to a small helicopter for a short flight from New Jersey to East Hampton, New York. She was on her...
August 25, 2011 10:00 AM ET
Kanye West: Head of the Class | ARTICLE

Kanye West is in his bedroom, getting dressed. This often takes a while, sometimes up to sixty minutes (as a child he dreamed...
April 29, 2004 12:15 PM ET
The Black Album | ALBUM REVIEW

It's rare for a rapper to make a goodbye album — generally the marketplace kicks you out of the game first. But Jay-Z is a rare rapper. The dominant figure of the post-Biggie and -Tupac era, he...
November 19, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Hail To The Thief | ALBUM REVIEW

Radiohead's Hail To the Thief is a product of its moment: recorded in late 2002, during the American and British governments' slow, inevitable march to Iraq, of which lead singer Thom Yorke was an outspoken opponent. Hail...
June 3, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Sign O' The Times | ALBUM REVIEW

This review originally ran in Rolling Stone as part of a series that looked back at classic albums. It begins as a great book would, with the setting. "In France, a skinny man died of a big disease...
October 8, 2002 12:00 AM ET
'N Sync: True Tales of the Pop Life | ARTICLE

Picture this: a bunch of guys sitting around talking about girls. Just a normal guys-talking-about-dream-women sort of convo, one man dropping the name of...
August 16, 2001 10:45 AM ET
Mama's Gun | ALBUM REVIEW

They would be the reigning couple of black music if only they were still together. Erykah Badu and OutKast's Andre 3000, who were a pair for the three years leading up to 1999, have created two of...
January 18, 2001 12:00 AM ET
The Marshall Mathers LP | ALBUM REVIEW

Welcome to the summer of Shady. Where a very blond, white-trash homeboy from Detroit named Marshall becomes the king of hip-hop. It's like something out of science fiction. Eminem's 1999 triple-platinum major-label debut, The Slim Shady LP, was...
July 6, 2000 12:00 AM ET
D'Angelo Is Holding Your Hand | ARTICLE

'Dear heavenly Father," someone is saying to the silent room, "please give us the ability to touch this crowd." All thirty-six members of
May 11, 2000 3:10 PM ET
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic | ALBUM REVIEW

The hope for a heart-stopping new song from the former Prince dies hard. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, the Artist's first major-label album in three years, suggests his crap detector is still at least partially on the...
January 20, 2000 12:00 AM ET
Fresh | ALBUM REVIEW

This review originally ran in Rolling Stone as part of a series that looked back at classic albums. Sly Stone rose like a rocket in 1968 and 1969, offering supremely funky psychedelic soul, social commentary and instantly classic...
November 25, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Mary | ALBUM REVIEW

At first it seems a bit strange: There's only one MC on Mary J. Blige's new album, Mary. On her first and third studio albums — the genre-creating What's the 411? and the merely stellar Share My...
September 2, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Tim's Bio: From The Motion Picture Life From Da Bassment | ALBUM REVIEW

You know those stories where there are two equally talented brothers, but then something goes awry and one turns bad while the other remains good? Here's another. Robert Diggs (the RZA) and Tim Mosley (Timbaland) are among the...
December 10, 1998 12:00 AM ET
Hello Nasty | ALBUM REVIEW

See all those stars up there? That means I can't walk down my block for a whole month. For a black man, championing the Beasties is like being down with Madonna or rooting for the Utah Jazz....
July 9, 1998 12:00 AM ET
Resurrection | ALBUM REVIEW

As more and more former B-boys and B-girls find jobs in hip-hop outside of the spotlight — as label heads, video directors, stylists, journalists — a trend is making itself apparent: The jobs with the shortest tenure...
February 9, 1995 12:00 AM ET
Illmatic | ALBUM REVIEW

Roll down the windows on a summer Saturday and ride down New York's Broadway — from the Bronx, where hip-hop was created, through Harlem and the Village, where it's criticized and consumed, and down to Wall Street,...
August 25, 1994 12:00 AM ET
Janet | ALBUM REVIEW

As princess of America's black royal family, everything Janet Jackson does is important. Whether proclaiming herself in charge of her life, as she did on Control (1986), or commander in chief of a rhythm army dancing to...
June 24, 1993 12:00 AM ET
14 Shots To The Dome | ALBUM REVIEW

Ever since "I Can't Live Without My Radio" floated into the Zeitgeist in 1985, L.L. Cool J has been a superstar. L.L.'s tension-filled performance was so breath-takingly powerful and sexy that few rappers have ever equaled it....
May 13, 1993 12:00 AM ET