Hip-Hop Violence: Pop Goes The Weasel
Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 23 March 2005
FOR THE RECORD: guns don't go bang but pop, a noise a lot like a jumbo bottle of champagne being opened. As this was a hip-hop gig, it wasn't entirely out of the question that some show-off had brought his own vat of Cristal, and for the first pop to have been the juice being uncorked.
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