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Standard Issue: Hip-Hop, Vol. 1
Ten essential tracks from a slice of time during hip-hop’s Golden Age.
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‘It’s Dark and Hell is Hot’: 25 Year Anniversary
DMX’s debut album introduced us to rap’s most complicated anti-hero.
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Grunge God
Layne Staley wasn’t the rock icon of his era, but he was the best voice in grunge music.
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DMX: As Real As It Gets
DMX was the hardest shit I had ever heard. Heavy metal hip-hop. He was a hurricane on the record. He was “a motherf***ing problem”.