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Topic subjectRE: Dan Charnas talked about it in his book The Big Payback.
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2831944, RE: Dan Charnas talked about it in his book The Big Payback.
Posted by murph71, Tue Aug-13-13 04:06 PM
>There are some great stories connected to the making of the
>anti-black-on-black violence single ‘Self Destruction.’ When
>you think back to leading such a monumental all-star project —
>that featured everyone from the late Heavy D and Kool Moe Dee
>to MC Lyte and Public Enemy — what comes to mind?
>
>The fact that LL Cool J still showed up to the session even
>after Def Jam told him not to. Just imagine a triple-platinum
>artist wanting to show up and be part of a project so bad, but
>he can’t because of his record company. But again LL still
>shows up! Can you imagine MC Lyte and LL together writing a
>verse for ‘Self Destruction’? Lyte was so hardcore and so much
>New York female hip-hop. She was battling everybody back then.
>And she’s in the corner writing with a superstar like LL Cool
>J and they are trying to figure out how to save our children!
>If I was a man that cried that was my time to do it.
>
>http://theboombox.com/krs-one-the-bdp-album/

Thanks for beating me to it...lol