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Smoke Some Kill

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Schoolly D’s second full-length album was slightly more musically sophisticated than his debut, while preserving the anarchic crudity that made his work thrilling. The crucial factor is the kick drum, which is as loud as ever, enough to crack the sidewalk from a passing car. His rhymes have a haphazard, scribbled quality; he never seems to stick to a subject for more than four lines, shifting his attention like a teenager aimlessly changing TV channels. The sole exception is “Signifying Rapper,” on which he adapts an old Rudy Ray Moore (aka Dolemite) routine over a sludgy live-band interpolation of the riff from Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.”

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