Various Artists - America Is Dying Slowly (1996).It may not have completely integrated rap, but it was a precursor to aĬulture that became more inclusive and widespread after its arrival. Kids could play along without appropriating or bastardizing the culture. Was also important because it proved to the hip-hop heads that white Taste line, and "Desert Boots" is a puzzling Western-themed insertion -īut they are at least interesting stretches that add to the dense, Impression on "Flippin' Off the Wall." is on the wrong side of the Idea plays out successfully - Serch's Tom Waits The duo may not have come from the streets, but their hearts were Night, respectively), with A-plus production by heavyweights Prince Paul and Bomb Squad, as well as the surprising, overshadowing work of Sam Sever. Songs, alternately upbeat rollers ("Sons of 3rd Bass"),Ĭasual-but-sincere disses ("The Gas Face"), razor-sharp streetĭidacticism ("Triple Stage Darkness," "Wordz of Wizdom"), and sweatyĬity anthems ("Brooklyn Queens," "Steppin' to the A.M.," odes to day and Matching MC Serch's bombastic, goofy good nature and Prime Minister Pete Nice's gritty, English-trained wordsmithery (sounding like a young Don in training), 3rd Bass'ĭebut album is revelatory in its way. Poetry of the street with compassion and veneration for the form. There were very few white kids in rap's first decade who spoke the Who both gained a legitimate, earned respect in the rap community, Besides the upper-middle-class frat-punks-in-rap-clothing shtick of the Beastie Boys and emissary/producer Rick Rubin,
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