Hip-Hop fans are a nostalgic bunch. Despite many of our favorite groups effectively calling it quits more than 10 years ago, we still hold out hopes for reunion albums that will capture they’re past greatness.
Every passing year, and new age rapper that takes their slot, makes such comeback albums less of a possibility. That’s not even mentioning the fact that securing that same musical energy that made you a fan, or maintaining the chemistry that made it possible, after all these years is not very likely.
Nevertheless, there are still plenty of acts we wish would reunite and drop a proper new album that contains and adds dope, fresh and new music to their aging discographies. Anything less wouldn’t be worth the trouble, right?
Here are a dozen examples of Hip-Hop albums we’ve been waiting on for over 10 years. Let us know who you think we missed.
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The LOX
When fans joined in with the “Let The LOX Go” (from Bad Boy) campaign, no one was banking on their last proper album being 2000’s We Are The Streets. No, we’re not counting projects billed as “D-Block.”
A Tribe Called Quest
Easily one of the most heralded groups in Hip-Hop history, ATCQ’s last proper album was 1998’s The Love Movement. Can we get an EP?
Black Star
Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey have enjoyed so much solo success that you tend to forget Mos & Talib Kweli Are Black Star dropped back in 1998. Do it for the culture, fellas.
Digable Planets
A reunion concert planned for December 2012 was abruptly cancelled, which pretty much deaded all hopes for a new album to finally follow up 1994’s Blowout Comb.
Dr. Dre
Solo work from the Doctor was always collaborative, so you know Detox, the mythic follow up to 1999’s The Chronic 2001, will include a similar cast of characters like Snoop Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound. If it ever drops…
OutKast
The Idlewild project was a soundtrack, okay? Leaving Speakerboxxx/The Love Below—that was two solo projects if you want to get technical—as OutKast’s last album, which will be 10-years-old this September.
The Fugees
Lauryn Hill is currently in the bing for tax evasion, which sadly is like a metaphor for The Fugees’ attempts at a reunion (The Score dropped in ’96) that will stick.
Organized Konfusion
Dropping esoteric rhymes made Organized Konfusion one of underground rap’s most popular groups. Talk of a reunion has always come and gone since Prince Po and Pharoahe Monch’s last album as a duo, 1997’s The Equinox.
Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Despite a discography that’s just two albums deep, as well as an EP, heads still have hope for a new project since 1994’s The Main Ingredient.
The Pharcyde
The last Pharcyde album that featured all its original members (Bootie Brown, Slim Kid Tr3, Fat Lip and Imani) was 1995’s Labcabincalifornia. With group members currently suing each other, don’t bank on a reunion anytime soon.
The Artifacts
The New Jersey duo of Tame One and El De Sensei have been having on again, off again group drama since dropping their sophomore album, That’s Them, back in 1997.
Leaders Of The New School
LONS reunited for the first time in over a decade at the 2012 Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. Despite talks of new music, things quickly returned to being as quiet for the group since the release of their sophomore album, T.I.M.E., 20 years ago.
