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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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A Quick Hit: DMX: 25th Anniversary

Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood is a bombastic sophomore album by a rapper (and his record label) cashing in on his stellar debut.

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A bold attempt by a hip-hop genius to bring a comic book style antihero to life on a rap album underwhelms as it hints to what could have been.

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DMX’s debut album introduced us to rap’s most complicated anti-hero.

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Queensbridge and Marcy Projects go to war for the NYC crown.

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The Blunt Brothers have a family feud.

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The Wally Champ and the Chef rock Shaolin and duel for the Iron Mic.

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A Bay Area slurricane slams into Yonkers.