The early ’90s don’t seem like that long ago, do they?
It’s been 20 years since the release of Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” and the “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thing” video premiere. 1992 was the year hip-hop soul was born and gangsta rap took over the mainstream. In other words, it was the year that set the stage for the remainder of urban music in the 1990s.
Some landmark albums turned 20 this past year, so at the risk of making some people feel really old and some others feel really young, here are 10 classic albums that crossed the two-decade mark in 2012 …