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    Ain't No Other


    Respect is currency in the hip-hop nation, and since crashing into the territory with her husky roar, MC Lyte has been making dollars – even though she took a pay cut for her smoothed-out last album. This around-the-way girl gets hers without the benefit of a gimmick, game or pose. She's a...

    1993 RS: 4of 5 Stars

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When MC Lyte emerged in the late '80s, one could rarely find a woman's perspective in hip-hop -- particularly a woman's point of view that was voiced in razor-sharp rhymes and didn't pander to the lovey-dovey R&B world. By the time Lyte dropped her finest full length, Act Like You Know, she had a few sisters on the radio with her, notably Queen Latifah, even if, by 1991, gangsta-rap bullshitters...

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