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Remembering the Fever

Carol Cooper, 'Hip Hop Fever' (Warlock Records), 2000

NOBODY'S TRYING to say that Disco Fever was the only important hip-hop club. But for various reasons, the Fever is still remembered as the most famous and most unusual Bronx based institution ever devoted to promoting the art, style, and formative attitudes of rap music.

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