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45 Live: A Classic Rap Mix
Five Day Weekend
Nas may have been right when he said: “Hip hop is dead.” Having witnessed it sink below the level of nursery rhymes, a little nostalgia for its salad days can’t hurt. The Stones Throw label boss performs a sterling job here of not just chopping up doubles of some eighties evergreens - Fearless Four, Dimples D, Marley Marl, Biz Markie, Spoonie Gee - but, apropos of pure fetishism, he uses the 7” versions. Fresh!