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...post-modern gloom of 20th-century America arose the constructed angst of a group of young urban lyricists. Hailing from the East Coast communities of Crooklyn, Mo’ Money Manhattan, the Boogie-Down Bronx and Illidelphia, or from across the wheated plains in the West Coast’s LBC, Compton and El Barrio, these poets raged with urban fury against “the man,” “the money,” “playa hatas” and “baby mamas.” The martyred poet Biggie Smalls...

Author: By A. I. Greenbaum and J. M., CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Norton Anthology of Urban Poetry (Da Norton Book of Dope-ass Rhymes) | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

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