This is Madness

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 35:27

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Cocaine Blunts and Hip-Hop Tapes

By Andrew Nosnitsky, eMusic Contributor

For all it's chest pounding bravado, hip-hop music is actually a pretty dorky pastime. The hardest of hard rocks would hate to admit it, but any kid who occupies his free time by writing poetry or collecting and cutting up records is probably doing so at the expense of hitting on girls. We might as well be playing Dungeons & Dragons in baggy jeans. Cocaine Blunts & Hip Hop Tapes is a digital extension of… more »

They Say All Music Guide

A legendary set featuring a group of extremely controversial street poets. The Last Poets used offensive language brilliantly, talked in graphic detail about America’s social and racial failures, and helped expose a wider audience to the sentiments of the ’70s black nationalists. They were the forerunners of today’s Afrocentric rappers, and also showed the way to a jazz/rap union now being explored on both sides of the Atlantic. This has been reissued on CD. – Ron Wynn