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Let's hear it for the return of Marcel Hall, clown prince of hip-hop and endearingly wretched singer -- remember his caterwauling on 1989's deathless "Just a Friend"? His funkiness is undimmed on his first record in ten years, Weekend Warrior: He ebulliently celebrates the dishes he adores ("Chinese...
2003 RS:
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The class clown of New York hip-hop, Biz Markie proved himself as
adept at goofily sincere crooning and lowbrow comedy as rapping. A
rap link to the Coasters of ?Charlie Brown? and ?Yakety Yak,? he is
also known for losing the first rap-sampling lawsuit to be decided
by a judge.
Born in Harlem and reared on Long Island, Biz got his start on the early-?80s downtown-Manhattan rap scene in such...
Born in Harlem and reared on Long Island, Biz got his start on the early-?80s downtown-Manhattan rap scene in such...
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