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500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die!
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Anchored by three tracks from the pioneering Real Roxanne and two apiece by the ultraconfident Queen Latifah and the inimitably nasty Roxanne Shanté, this disc of trailblazing women in hip-hop has a few significant gaps as a survey but kicks like crazy as a string of surefire jams. Mostly plucked from the late 1980s, it's also a unique sideways look at the way some subgenres of hip-hop evolved: pop-dance with rapping (Oaktown's 3-5-7 and the Real Roxanne's embrace of go-go beats), reggae-fied bounce (Latifah), and even the X-rated Southern style (of which 2 Much's "Wild Thang," which launched LeShaun's career, is an o
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Release date: 7 April 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0081227298425 UPC: 081227298425
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Release date: 7 April 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0081227298425 UPC: 081227298425
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JxSxPx added this to a list 7 years, 11 months ago
500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)"A retrospective that goes from New York to Oakland, from the spunky sass of Roxanne Shanté to the dead-eye cool of Queen Latifah in search of hip-hop’s pioneering ladies of the ’80s. Standout track: Dimples D., “Sucker D.J.’s” "
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