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Old 05-08-2009, 09:15 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by IamAlejo View Post
The lyrics, the flow. Put it in it's time frame of mid-nineties and he was one of the first to touch on the sort of mafioso type lifestyle in rap. He touches on actual subjects and was completely original for it's time.
Putting it in the timeframe of the mid-90s, the mafioso thing sounds like a lot of hip-hop at the time actually. And I'm not sure if I understand what you mean about him touching on actual subjects being something original. That's been a part of hip-hop since the very, very early days.
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