Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown 2LP xx2002 Mecca and the Soul Brother

Mecca and the Soul Brother is the 1992 debut album from the Mount Vernon

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One of the world’s most singular guitarists

“The last time I saw Howlin' Rain ignite a stage -- at New York's Brooklyn Bowl in the summer of 2018 -- I could never have imagined the profound silence that surrounds me two years later

Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown 2LP xx2002 Mecca and the Soul BrotherIs Ultramagnetic MC's 1988 debut generally considered a turning point in music?? You know akin to when Link Wray stabbed his amp's speaker cone with a pencil to achieve the distorted guitar sound on Rumble? Maybe? Probably not? Should I make a really annoying music nerd analogy like "Kool Keith is the Lou Reed of Hip Hop?" Definitely a bad idea (hes actually the John Cale of Hip Hop). Anyway this record really hits the sweet spot of early Hip Hops