Public Enemy: Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age
Mark Cooper, Q, 1994
BY RIGHTS, THEY should be out of here. Hip hop may be black folks news channel, as Chuck D likes to point out, but todays news is tomorrows fish n chip papers. Its the total immediacy of the genre as much as the cut-throat nature of the music industry itself that insists upon turnover ruling the rap game, discarding hip heroes on an almost monthly basis.
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