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Blue Chips: Rome Streetz The New York rapper has created vivid, narratively rich street raps for years. Now he’s working with revered Cypress Hill producer DJ Muggs
Max Bell | May 26, 2021 - 11:00 am
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Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that doubles as a scouting report. Each month, SPIN selects a rapper (or group of rappers) who could be Rookie of the Year candidates turned Hall-of-Famers or forgettable flashes in the pan.
Only the passing seasons (and the number of streams) will tell. To read previous columns,
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Griselda Records rappers have dominated the conversation surrounding New York’s street rap renaissance for the last five years. Individual and consolidated talent, the Shady Records affiliation, album packaging, musical glut, onomatopoeic gun noises there are reasons for their prominence. But their shadow often obscures New York rappers equally gifted at delivering grimy vignettes in slick, simi
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Five largish Negro men and one small white one piled into a jalopy on January 7, 1927, and headed out of Chicago for Hinckley, Illinois, fifty miles west, to play basketball for money. Abe Saperstein’s Harlem, New York, Globetrotters (they didn’t actually go to Harlem until 1968, after Abe was dead) were born, and seventy-plus years later you can still catch them at your local arena.