On September 29, 1998, four important hip-hop albums were released on the same day: Jay-Z's _Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life_, Outkast's _Aquemini_, Black Star's _Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star_ and A Tribe Called Quest's _The Love Movement_. Sending a ripple through the rap scene of the East Coast down to Atlanta and on to the West, this quadruple-header represented a wild survey of diversity of rap in the charts in the late '90s. Guest host Matthew Ismael Ruiz invites the writers and scholars Jason King (_NPR_, NYU's Clive Davis Institute) and Timmhotep Aku (Senior editor, _Pitchfork_) on _Peak Time_ to parse these crucial records and what this day meant for hip-hop as a whole.
