Funkmaster Flex
Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
EASTER SUNDAY, 10:30 p.m. The police are manning barricades on West 27th Street to disperse an overflow crowd that has flocked to the Tunnel to party with Funkmaster Flex. As hundreds of young black men and women drift into the night, the air holds a palpable sense of disappointment.
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