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Lightnin' Rod's Hustlers Convention: Rap's Great Lost Album

Graeme Thomson, The Guardian, 30 January 2014

A FULL DECADE before Public Enemy revolutionised the world of rap, Chuck D first encountered the album he describes today as "a verbal roadmap for people trying to understand the ghetto they were in: 'What is this life that's ahead of me, and how can I actually figure out how to handle it?' That's what this record was."

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