There are plenty of reasons to be excited about listening to an album for the first time. If it’s an artist you love, your anticipation for the moment you hit play on your Spotify/iTunes/Sony ...

Even though her Queen album has been pushed back to August, Nicki Minaj is giving us a potential taste of the project's process and what she is planning to include on it. Now that her and Eminem have ...

I can’t be the only one who feels like album intro tracks are dumb in 2011. I’m no full-album hater — intro tracks were cool once upon a time when you had little choice but to sit through them, and ...

For the better part of a year, Roddy Ricch has left his fans wondering when the Compton rapper would deliver his sophomore album. His debut Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial was met with rave ...

Before iTunes and Amazon gave us the luxury of picking and choosing which tracks we want off an album, we had to buy the entire CD or cassette tape to listen to everything we paid for. The intro ...

Mike Dean has seen his profile rise in recent years thanks to his work with Kanye West and Jay Z. But the legendary producer was the man behind some of the finest work in southern hip-hop history as ...

Drake always places a huge importance on the introductions to all his projects, kicking off everything from So Far Gone to More Life with a memorable start. And with a newly announced album called ...

Meek Mill set the bar incredibly high for album intros when he created the song "Dreams and Nightmares." Even for himself. Meek posted a message on Wednesday declaring that the recently-recorded intro ...

I like Slipknot’s new album, .5: The Gray Chapter (read my review here), but the opening track, “XIX,” is probably my least favorite cut on the record. It’s more than just an intro in vein of ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I’m a big fan of rapper AZ and have been ever since I heard his ...

Innovative Hainan, China-based duo Intro To Music Theory are back with 'First Inversion', the multifaceted DJ/production pair's debut album. It follows up 'The California Almond', their first lead ...

Teyana Taylor’s newest project, The Album, is truly THE album of the year. It seems like just about every big name in the music industry contributed their vocals: Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, Rick Ross ...