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This slick-tongued New Yorker, who debuted on Nas' Illmatic, has long mixed up brassy boasts and ponderous introspective lyricism. His fifth album finds him showing off his punch-and-jab verbosity while detailing the travails of a B-list rapper with "one son, two guns and a couple of cribs." Though hard-knock tales such as "Street Life," which employs a weepy violin sample, are surprisingly soft and hooky, harder cuts such as "City of Gods" suggest AZ might break through if he had the right producer to egg him on.
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