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Oct 26, 2009 3:34 pm PT

bradleybhoy posted in the topic Classic Album Thread #109: De. Dre - Chronic 2001 on the union board Off the Books: Anything and Everything Hip-Hop

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1. Fab 5 Freddy - Intro 2. Black Sheep - I'm the One 3. Big Daddy Kane - Like That, Y'all 4. Biz Markie - My Name Is... 5. MC Lyte - Listen Up 6. Grand Puba - Let's Go 7. Smooth B (of Nice & Smooth) - I Want My Money Back 8. Graig G - Catch a Lyrical Beatdown 9. Chubb Rock - Chubb Rocks the Party 10. Special Ed - This Mic 11. Doug E. Fresh - It Ain't Nothin' 12. Jungle Brothers - Back In the Jungle 13. Just Ice - I Run the Streets Continue »
- Posted Oct 9, 2007
- Category: Music
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My Take on Illmatic

The debut from the rapper Nas. Nas grew up in the notorious New York housing project Queensbridge and was living there as a young adult when Illmatic was recorded. Nas never slips into the basic gangsta-posturing of many West Coast acts or even the crack-empire daydreams of Jay-Z or Raekwon. Nas takes the perspective of a street hustler on the bottom rung of society trying to scrape a living but thinking of bigger things. "Be having dreams that I'm a gangster, drinking moets holding tecs / Making sure the cash came correct then I step / Investments Continue »
- Posted Jul 2, 2007
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