AZ Feat. Raekwon & C.R - "The Secret":
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AZ Mixtape Release Party At Knitting Factory-(08-07-2008)
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AZ Mixtape Release Party At Knitting Factory-(08-07-2008)
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Born in Brooklyn as Anthony Cruz, AZ first came to the greater rap community’s attention in a big way after his stellar performance on NAS’s "Life’s A Bitch" in 1994. Given AZ’s simularity to Nas and the overwhelming response to Nas’s Illmatic album, it was just a matter of time before AZ would score a record deal, a feat he accomplished in 1995. The resulting debut album "Doe or Die", shook the New York hip-hop scene as Nas’s ’Illmatic’ and Mobb Deep’s ’Infamous’ had done shortly before it.
Like those albums, Doe or Die revealed in the street life -hustling for cash, peddling drugs, violent encounters, mandatory boastings, struggling daily just to maintain - but took a literate and thoughtful approach to the often exploitative gangsta motifs. Furthermore, like Nas, Az had Pete Rock crafting the beats, which won the young rapper instant credibility among the hip-hop community.
Born in Brooklyn as Anthony Cruz, AZ first came to the greater rap community’s attention in a big way after his stellar performance on NAS’s "Life’s A Bitch" in 1994. Given AZ’s simularity to Nas and the overwhelming response to Nas’s Illmatic album, it was just a matter of time before AZ would score a record deal, a feat he accomplished in 1995. The resulting debut album "Doe or Die", shook the New York hip-hop scene as Nas’s ’Illmatic’ and Mobb Deep’s ’Infamous’ had done shortly before it.
Like those albums, Doe or Die revealed in the street life -hustling for cash, peddling drugs, violent encounters, mandatory boastings, struggling daily just to maintain - but took a literate and thoughtful approach to the often exploitative gangsta motifs. Furthermore, like Nas, Az had Pete Rock crafting the beats, which won the young rapper instant credibility among the hip-hop community.
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