The first full length rap albums were released at the beginning of 1980 and they contained as many R&B songs as they did rap songs. As a result it wasn't possible to sequence the albums thematically , and there was no sense of cohesion as the albums were really more like compilations of previously released singles paired with a few new songs. In 1980 The Sugar Hill Gang and Kurtis Blow both released self titled albums that fit the previously mentioned description. It wasn't until Run-DMC released their 1984 self-titled album that we got an album that didn't contain R&B songs. The social commentary of "It's Like That" and the remake of Kurtis Blow's "Hard Times" combined with Jam Master Jay's cut song "Jays Game" and the slightly comical "30 Days" provided a somewhat variety of different subject matters that did not exist in rap albums previously.

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