(Debut) PremRock, Mark's Wild Years

It feels fitting that on my last New York City visit, I met with PremRock in a Lower East Side Polish bar to toss back $4 short-n-tall specials and discuss his tribute album to Tom Waits. Rather than focus on business, we discussed other rappers, our sports allegiances (burrowing deep into his Phillies going up against my Giants in the 2010 NLCS), and the thrills of cheap whiskey, which again felt apropro of Waitsian matters. Without hearing it executed, the conceit of a marriage of Tom Waits a...

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