One year after her eye-opening memoir and fresh off a nostalgic world tour, the rap icon looks back on the hip-hop career that started it all.

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

The music icons are set to become the first female hip-hop group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Here's a calendar of new music releases coming this year. As musicians make their announcements, we'll update this list!