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Artist
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Songs
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Year
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Additional Hints
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Album
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The Beatles
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Drive My Car / In My Life / Think For Yourself
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1965
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Succeeds Help! and precedes Revolver
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Rubber Soul
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Marvin Gaye
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Save the Children / What's Happening Brother / God is Love
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1971
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"Talk to me / So you can see / ____'_ _____ __"
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What's Going On
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Stevie Wonder
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Sir Duke / Isn't She Lovely / Another Star
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1976
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Double album, think of the one with orange on the cover
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Songs in the Key of Life
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Fleetwood Mac
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Dreams / The Chain / Go Your Own Way
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1977
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These spread like wildfire
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Rumours
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The Rolling Stones
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Miss You / Beast of Burden / Respectable
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1978
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The cover has 4 different colored rows with edits of faces of various celebrities, looks very cool
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Some Girls
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Blondie
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Heart of Glass / Hanging on the Telephone / One Way or Another
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1978
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A rectangle would have 2 sets of these
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Parallel Lines
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Michael Jackson
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Rock With You / Workin' Day and Night / Get on the Floor
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1979
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Disco
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Off the Wall
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Van Halen
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Panama / Jump / Hot For Teacher
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1984
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Cover has a baby angel smoking cigarettes
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1984
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Bon Jovi
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Livin' on a Prayer / You Give Love A Bad Name / Wanted Dead or Alive
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1986
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A road sign you might see for when it rains
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Slippery When Wet
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Madonna
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Papa Don't Preach / La Isla Bonita / White Heat
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1986
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Rhymes and contains a color
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True Blue
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Beastie Boys
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Fight For Your Right / No Sleep Till Brooklyn / Brass Monkey
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1986
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Not quite James Bond
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Licensed To Ill
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2Pac
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Skandalouz / Run Tha Streetz / Ain't Hard 2 Find
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1996
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A double album, 2Pac's most commercially successful project, his 5th studio album and the last one released in his lifetime
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All Eyez On Me
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The Notorious B.I.G.
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Mo Money Mo Problems / Hypnotize / Sky's the Limit
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1997
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Released about a couple weeks after his death, which sort of relates to the theme of the album, also a double album like the above
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Life After Death
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Eminem
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Till I Collapse / Superman / Hailie's Song
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2002
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Eminem's 3rd studio album, Eminem is the star of this show and rightfully so hence the name
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The Eminem Show
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50 Cent
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Candy Shop / Piggy Bank / Position of Power
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2005
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50's 2nd studio album, Boston had one of these in 1770 in which 5 people were killed
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The Massacre
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Kanye West
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Touch the Sky / Gold Digger / Diamonds From Sierra Leone
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2005
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Kanye's 2nd studio album, he might've signed up for classes pretty late on this one
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Late Registration
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Lady Gaga
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Poker Face / Just Dance / Paparazzi
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2008
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The deluxe was released a year later and featured Bad Romance and Telephone
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The Fame
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Black Eyed Peas
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I Gotta Feeling / Meet Me Halfway / Boom Boom Pow
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2009
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Futuristic vibes, green cover
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THE E.N.D. (THE ENERGY NEVER DIES)
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Taylor Swift
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Sparks Fly / Mean / Better Than Revenge
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2010
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Taylor's 3rd album, before she went more pop on Red and 1989
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Speak Now
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Kendrick Lamar
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A.D.H.D. / Rigamortus / The Spiteful Chant
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2011
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Kendrick's debut album, following the mixtape Overly Dedicated. This album isn't as talked about as his next 3 which had astronomical commercial and cultural appeal
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Section.80
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Drake
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Headlines / Crew Love / Under Ground Kings
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2011
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Usually seen as one of Drake's best projects and his most critically acclaimed, following 2010's Thank Me Later
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Take Care
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Rihanna
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Diamonds / Pour it Up / Nobody's Business
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2012
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Rihanna is not very apologetic on this album
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Unapologetic
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Justin Bieber
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Beauty and a Beat / As Long As You Love Me / All Around The World
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2012
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Someone who has faith does this
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Believe
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Travis Scott
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90210 / Maria I'm Drunk / Pray 4 Love
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2015
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Travis' debut album and most critically acclaimed project
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Rodeo
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Bruno Mars
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That's What I Like / Finesse / Too Good to Say Goodbye
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2016
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Bruno's 3rd studio album and final solo album as of now. Think about pure gold
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24K Magic
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Childish Gambino
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Redbone / Me and Your Mama / Terrified
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2016
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Glover moves a bit away from hip-hop to do some vintage experimental RnB/funk/soul
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"Awaken, My Love!"
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Migos
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Bad and Boujee / T-Shirt / Kelly Price
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2017
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Often seen as one of the best contemporary trap albums in recent years, they followed with a sequel in 2018 and then a 3rd one in 2021
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Culture
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The Weeknd
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In Your Eyes / Heartless / Save Your Tears
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2020
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This album has continued to receive a lot of attention, he performed songs such as Blinding Lights at the Super Bowl Halftime Show within the next year
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After Hours
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Tory Lanez
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The Color Violet / Pink Dolphin Sunset / '87 Stingray
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2021
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Tory goes retro pop on this album, think about a high school dance you might have gone to
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Alone At Prom
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Metro Boomin
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Superhero / Too Many Nights / Niagara Falls
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2022
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Marvel and DC have a lot of these, people from both sides, eg. Batman AND Joker
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HEROES & VILLAINS
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