I almost forgot: Today is Kool G. Rap‘s 52nd birthday. As a child of the hip-hop generation, I wanted to pay tribute to one of your favorite rapper’s rappers — and of Queens’ finest. Happy birthday, brother! “Ill Street Blues” is still one of the hardest, most vicious songs ever recorded.
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