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█ ▓▓██ TITLE....[ Tommy Boy Presents Hip Hop Essentials ██▓▓ █
▄ ▓██ LABEL....[ Tommy Boy (TB16342) ██▓ ▄
▓██▄ GENRE....[ Hip-Hop ▄██▓
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▓███▀▀ ▀██ TRACKS...[ 12 ██▀ ▀▀███▓
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ it may be hard to imagine for younger listeners ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ but there was a time before hip hop. there was ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ a time when were there were no hip hop radio ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ stations, there was no 106 park. there was no ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ source or vibe. no phat farm or roc-a-wear. no ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ rappers starred in big hollywood action movies ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ or had situation comedies built around their ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ celebrity. no gossip columnist cared about ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ their love lives. no hip hop figures hosted ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ political summits. none of them had their own ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ reality shows (and, i know this is crazy, but ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ there were no reality shows either!) ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ all the institutions and media events that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ surround 21st century hip hop didn't exist in ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hip hop's 1980s golden age. all you had back ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ then were parties and dancing and painting and, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ yeah, music and, really, that's all folks ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ seemed to need. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hip hop began on the streets of new york city ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ as a folk culture, meaning it done more for ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ love than money. throwing parties in public ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ parks, recreational centers and after-hours ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ clubs made no one rich. neither did dancing on ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ cardboard on times square street corners or ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ subway platforms. moreover being a graffiti ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ writer, spray painting you tag on subway cars ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ or public spaces, was a good way to get fined, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ arrested and a maybe a night stick upside your ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ head. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ the evolution of hip hop through the 1980s into ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ the '90s happened through a series of pitched ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ battles: the struggle to get black and pop ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ radio to play rap hits: forcing mtv and bet to ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ program hip hop videos; urging major retailers ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ to stock and display the records; pushing ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ mainstream magazines and newspapers to take ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ these performers seriously. in every case hip ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hop fought the battles and eventually won the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ war. in the process american culture was ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ changed. what is mainstream no longer means ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ bruce springsteen singing about glory days, but ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ a memories of phat laces and breakin'. it's no ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ longer pop soul balladeer lionel richie hosting ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ awards shows but queen latifah, who rose out of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ rap to become one of the most beloved figures ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ in the country ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ the engine for pushing hip hop's agenda ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ throughout its long rise to prominence were ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ feisty little independent labels, most of them ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ based in new york and run by aggressive young ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ businesspeople. tommy boy was one of the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ crucial record companies. founded by tom ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ silverman (aka tommy boy) and run out of a ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ series of manhattan offices, tommy boy became ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ home base for an extraordinary roster of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ artists. afrika bambaataa the soul sonic force, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ stetsasonic, naughty by nature, de la soul, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ queen latifah and coolio are among the acts on ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ a line up as deep and influential as any in the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ genre's history. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ tommy boy was at the core of the golden age of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hip hop, a time of fun, innovation and cutting ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ edge music. the collection of tracks you're ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ holding now is one great artifact of that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ vibrant, enduring era. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hip hop essentials - v o l u m e e i g h t ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ my first portal into hiphop was a small record ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ store in mattapan square, near boston, called ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ skippy white's. the store was about as big as ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ your living room and the owner was a mellow ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ white man with a long beard who looked a little ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ like rick rubin. he was always there standing ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ behind the counter and he knew my father pretty ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ well-my dad's office was down the street-so he ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ greeted me by name, and, more importantly, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ allowed me an extra-lenient return policy. i ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ could buy any cassette-it was all cassettes ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ then-and return anything i didn't like. so i ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ tried every hiphop cassette in the store ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ without worrying about wasting my little ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ allowance. in the early 80s i usually had ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ every hiphop cassette in the store-hiphop was ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ so young then it was possible to own every ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ cassette in stock. the culture was like a baby ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ bird you could hold in your hands ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ i bought ll cool j's first album at skippy ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ white's. it had only been out a few days and ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ even though i hadn't heard the single, as soon ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ as i saw the cover-young kangol'd ll and that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ gigantic boombox-i knew it'd be fresh. i bought ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ run-dmc's second album there. i left school ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ during lunchtime to get it even though i ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ could've gotten expelled for leaving school ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ grounds, but they were the undisputed kings of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ rap, so i took the gamble. every time a new ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hiphop cassette came into the store it was an ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ event because each cassette gave us a new peek ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ into another world, a distant world that was ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ghetto and masculine, transmitted through ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ stories of street life, drugs, women, and ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ money. and, way back then, a world most ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ definitely centered around new york city ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ back then hiphop was a small underground ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ community led by the new york rappers, linked ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ by a few hiphop radio shows, a few nightclubs, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ and some mom-and-pop record stores like skippy ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ white's. you may have your own skippy white's ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ in your past, some little place that helped you ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ connect with the world of hiphop when you ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ couldn't turn on mtv to get it easily. those ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ were the days before anyone said "keep it real" ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ because back then no one had to because ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ everything was real ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "funk you up" by sequence borrows quite a bit ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ from the funk records of the 70s-check that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ bassline. this group, an early sugar hill ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ signing, includes the young angie stone (the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ third woman to rhyme, she calls herself angie b ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ at the beginning) who has become a great soul ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ singer ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "the message" by grandmaster flash and the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ furious five is a toweringly legendary song in ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hiphop history. "rapper's delight" came first ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ but that was some cute rhymes about superman ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ said by non-rappers who snatched the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ opportunity to record when serious rappers ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ weren't thinking about recording. "the message" ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ came second, bringing with it the sound of true ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hiphop: real mcs spitting honestly about what ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ was going on in the streets of ronald reagan's ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ america ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ i love the echoey sound of "gucci time" by ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ schoolly d which was kind of common at a ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ certain point in the early to mid 80s because ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ it mimicked the echoey sound of the small ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ dancehalls where a lot of early hiphop jams ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ were held ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "colors" by ice-t exploded into hiphop in the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ summer of 1988 alongside a movie starring sean ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ penn and robert duvall. the movie was ill, but ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ nothing in it is as frightening as ice-t's ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ vocal on this track. there's all kinds of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ grittyness and textures and layers in his voice ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ that comes across as deep as the rivers ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "push it" by salt n pepa is one of the first ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hiphop songs to borrow certain elements of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ house music-the song's structure relies more on ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ a long, oft repeated chorus rather than having ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ lots of verses as hiphop usually prefers. i've ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ never liked this song but millions did and it ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ pushed salt n pepa to a new level of fame ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "the gas face" by 3rd bass is an interesting ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ song to note the stark difference between two ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ members of one group. observe the difference ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ between what pete nice and what mc serch chose ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ to write about. nice's verse, the first, is ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ about the record business and how he got a raw ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ deal getting into the industry. serch's verse ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ is something deeper: he disses racism itself ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ and the idea that white people can't be evil. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ you can hear how much serch hates the evil of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ white people. he's almost apologizing for ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ being white ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "slow down" by brand nubian can still rock at a ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ party because these guys were such great mcs ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ that they're still current even years later. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ after "slow down" it was widely thought that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ grand puba would become the next best mc in new ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ york. his debut solo album was highly ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ anticipated and everyone expected the album ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ would be a coronation. but a funny thing ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ happened on the way to the throne: the album ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ sucked and puba was never again considered one ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ of the best mcs in new york ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "mr big stuff" by heavy d. the great thing ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ about heavy was that even though he was fat but ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ he could be light on his feet and dance like ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ much a thinner man. he somehow achieved this ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ same sort of effect with his mouth ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "check the rhyme," from a tribe called quest's ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ stellar sophomore album the low end theory, has ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ a great live instrumentation-that bassline is ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ crazy! this the song where q-tip says, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "industry rule #4,080/ record company people ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ are shady." many, many rappers have bashed the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ industry but no one has come up with a better, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ more memorable couplet ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "buddy" is still one of the best songs de la ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ soul ever made about dick and also one of the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ most fun hiphop group songs ever. you can hear ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ how much fun they must've had in the studio ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ while recording it from the little spark of a ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ laugh in so many of the rappers' voices. this ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ is the native tongues in their glory. there's ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ a gang of post-native tongues working now-mos ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ def, the roots, common, kanye-and their less ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ egocentric, less street, more bohemian, overtly ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ intellectual hiphop flows directly from this ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ loose gang of bohemian rappers who didn't ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ worship the avenue ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "if i ruled the world" by kurtis blow gets at a ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ primal hiphop wish-if i was king, if i was boss ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ this is the way things would go. most of the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ethos of hiphop is contained in the underlying ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ message of this song and "the message"-times is ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hard. yes, kurtis blow rhymes quite slowly ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ compared to rappers who came even five years ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ later but you know he's from the early days of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ hiphop because when run first came out he was ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ sometimes called the son of kurtis blow ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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▓▓██ ░░░░░ 2. | Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 | 7:13 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
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▓▓██ ░░░░░ 3. | Schoolly D - Guccci Time | 6:08 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ 4. | Ice T - Colors | 4:26 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ 5. | Salt N Pepa - Push It | 4:15 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ 6. | 3rd Bass - The Gas Face | 3:50 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ 7. | Brand Nubian - Slow Down | 5:02 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ 8. | Heavy D & The Boyz - Mr Big Stuff | 3:25 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ 9. | A Tribe Called Quest - Check The | 3:39 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
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▓▓██ ░░░░░ 11. | De La Soul ft Jungle Bros, Q-Tip, | 4:55 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
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▓▓██ ░░░░░ 12. | Kurtis Blow - If I Ruled The | 3:56 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
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