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203897, Fair, I guess but ... Posted by Brew, Wed Aug-24-16 01:58 PM
>Like, id understand cause there was some five percenter shit >going on and it's not hard to see Brand Nubian being an >influence. > >At the same time they lived in New York City (!!!). 1991 is >when Magic announced he had Aids, when Freddy Mercury died. >Gays still ran NYC nightlife..its not like these niggas grew >up in Kentucky. On top of the fame they had would have just >exposed em to just the niggas on the block, which is why I >give them more sideeye then your avg corner boy at the time. > >Like I have no doubt that they grew out of it...but I don't >think you can just put it to youth alone...you kinda had to be >willfully ignorant.
Beasties were from NYC as well weren't they ? Soooooo ... why do they get a pass ?
Agree with your last point though. Any example of a song like this includes some sort of willful ignorance, no matter where you grew up.
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