Kool G Rap : Rolling Stone

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As KRS-One will tell anyone who asks, hip-hop was born in the Bronx. But the rival ciphers of Queens have produced much of New York's finest rap talent from the late Eighties through today. Credit goes to Marley Marl, the genre's first superproducer and a master of the chopped-and-looped soul sample...

2002 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Biography

Before Kool G Rap, New York didn't really have the street rap that could hold its own against what artists such as L.A.'s Ice-T and N.W.A were churning out. Sure, Run-D.M.C. could get tough, and in the mid-to-late '80s a new generation of rappers, led by Rakim, was beginning to explore this territory. G Rap, though, excelled at the street narrative, a style that would come to define later Queens M...

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