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Cliff Jones, MOJO, October 1996
COOL ALWAYS HAS CONTEXT. Tonight that context is the growing awareness that hip hop and black American music in general have embraced a new set of values for the late '90s, in the process generating a whole new set of powerful pop figureheads.
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