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@jlw I wrote the Wikipedia article for that, as well as bios for participants like Dee Barnes and Oaktown’s 357!
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KRS1 and BDP had their own song and video called Self Destruction, replete with guest appearances and cameos, which was the East Coast version:
the mini doc:
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You rule. Also, left.
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came here for this.
WAITSG is dope, all great rappers, but for me, Above the Law outshines them all.
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Self Destruction was the first, then We Are All In The Same Gang followed shortly after. Both are great - and such a product of their time when seemingly everybody was getting together and recording big and splashy ensemble “message” songs.
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We’re all in the same precinct. “…stop killin’ my brotha 'cause we are from the same precinct OFFICER…” “…kill a black man? Yo’ what are you retarded? Yo’ do you work for the Fuzz?”
Def Jef is still a criminally overlooked emcee of that era.
If I might now have a “you kids get off my lawn” moment. . . the golden era of hip hop, the 80’s and 90’s from (let’s say) Run DMC up to Company Flow, is like the 60’s-70’s “classic rock” era or the similar golden eras of swing or bebop or Chicago blues-- people will be listening to that stuff forever.
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