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Mobb Deep: Murda Muzik (Loud/Epic)

Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 11 September 1999

IN QUEENSBRIDGE, NYC, when someone gets shot, they generally don't get up. Your homey isn't out drinking 40s and smoking blunts; he's laying on a slab with a tag on his toe. If Public Enemy are "Black CNN", then Mobb Deep are the bleakest investigative documentary.

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