35 years ago, hip-hop got a new queen. Queen Latifah released her debut album, All Hail the Queen, in November 1989, and today, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison talks about how that album ...

That takes us back to Latifah’s 1989 debut, “All Hail the Queen ... Start with the album cover: The Queen is set in black against an all-white background broken up only by a map of Africa ...

And then there’s the one and only Queen of Hip ... Soon we learned Latifah wasn’t just a rapper, but a singer too. The smooth contralto released two albums of jazz covers and standards ...

For Lyte, that means collaborating with some of the most well-known names in the genre — everyone from Stevie Wonder to Queen Latifah to ... MC Lyte's '1 of 1' album cover.

Dana Owens, better known by her stage moniker Queen Latifah, has yet another jewel to add to her crown. The National Recording Registry has announced that her debut album, All Hail The Queen ...