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MADVILLAIN
MADVILLAINY
STONESTHROW

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A friend says Madvillain registers higher on his “blackdar” -meaning his radar screen for blackness- than MF Doom’s two most recent albums, Take Me To Your Leader and Vaudeville Villain.

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NIG-LATIN
Mistah Fab

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BULLYS WIT FULLYS
GANGSTA WITHOUT THE RAP
 
MESSY MARV
DISOBAYISH

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After old school “mobb” groups like The Click began fizzling out of mainstream radio, West Coast artists grew less media-friendly

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MIXES:
 
DJ VLAD
HOT IN HERE, VOL. 5
 
G. BROWN
PURE FIYA, VOL. 3: RUDE BOYZ

Mixtapes are to hip hop as zines are to punk: symbols of a romanticized urban past, in which kids who couldn’t afford to take classical piano lessons, or rent band instruments, made their own music by cutting -and-pasting from a grab-bag of 808 machine beats, turntable cuts, and disco loops.
 
 
 

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A Girl's Guide to Gangsta Rap and Ghetto Tactics
copyright 2004 by Rachel Swan