We are delighted to announce that the Albumism family continues to expand with the exciting addition of Jesse Ducker. The Oakland, California native and passionate hip-hop expert enriches and diversifies our content offerings, and we look forward to his fresh perspectives in the future. We encourage the Albumism community to check out his inaugural article for the site, a thoughtful review of De La Soul’s long awaited new album and the Anonymous Nobody….

More about Jesse:

Jesse Ducker has been obsessed with music since he listened to his Tubby the Tuba record every morning before pre-school. He became a hip-hop head in 1984 after hearing King of Rock and never looked back. He’s been a music journalist and a DJ/radio personality for over two decades. Follow Jesse on Twitter via @j_ducker.

Jesse’s 5 Favorite Albums of All Time:

Bob Dylan’s ‘Modern Times’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

‘Modern Times’ mourns a musical idiom by giving it another good try, because if it’s in your bones, that’s how you grieve stuff anyway.

The Roots’ ‘Game Theory’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

The Roots’ seventh studio affair is the disquieted soundtrack to learning you’re in a game engineered for you to lose—a first-person shooter with your weapons removed.

Mary J. Blige’s ‘No More Drama’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

‘No More Drama’ represents a spiritual breakthrough for a woman who professed that she was tired of crying and stressing about the ills of romance and the world.