“I didn’t want to make a miserable record,” Russell, 53, said via video from the Copper House, his studio in London, where many of the conversations and most of the album were recorded.

Not only the first classic hip-hop album, but a sharp breaking point from the buoyant post-disco rhythms and future-shocked electro that dominated the genre's first five years on record.

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