Been listening to KRS-one/Marley Marl "Hip Hop Lives" last night. Listened to it three times straight. A superb album. It's kind of a strange combination of, on the one hand, someone saying how they've seen it done it all before, "you kids nowadays know think you know everything but we did everything first, there's nothing you can teach us, we were there first in everything"; and, on the other hand, saying look why don't you go out there and do something, do something we haven't done. And it kind of works. Plus the beats are dope. I've listened to a few of the other much talked about hip-hop albums of the year so far and none have really grabbed me, but this one, it has some amazing shit on it.
Oh yeah.
Hip Hop Lives. But should it really take two old school rappers to remind people of it?
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