We’re determined to keep upping crack records until Reagan comes back to life and reinjects crack cocaine back into the ghettoes so we can have some nice music again. Here we have a couple of mid 80’s curios, lovable for entirely different reasons. The True Life is notable for being the production debut of one [...]

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Of course, I’d take drugs advice from a man wearing differently-coloured sneakers with a large pinch of (rock) salt. That’s some Bubbles from The Wire Season 1 type steelo, Mr Moltke! Still, shortly after this record was released, Jane stopped that crazy thing and got a job in V.I.M. Unfortunately, everyone else, from June to [...]

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There are only pretty much 4 or 5 topics in hip-hop today. They are:
a) Selling coke
b) Cars (with sub-topics on rims and wood grain)
c) Girls
d) Dances
e) Taking hip-hop/NY back
Then again, that’s pretty much always been the case, only no-one used to rap about gripping wood grain in 1985 (and what a blessed relief that was) [...]

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