All Rise for the National Anthem of Hip-Hop
Will Hermes, The New York Times, 29 October 2006
THIS IS A story about a nearly forgotten album and the birth of hip-hop music. Like many good hip-hop tales, and pop yarns in general, it involves unlikely characters rising from obscurity and is colored with creative passion, violence, drugs, thievery, paydays and paybacks.
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