Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, And The Endurance Of ’90s Rap Nostalgia

In the Bad Boy era, I hated Bad Boy. I loved Biggie, and the rest of it was an abomination to me. It was the cartoonish glitz of the videos. It was the obviousness of the samples. It was all the R&B. It was Mase’s rapping-like-his-mouth-was-full-of-marshmallows delivery. It was Puff’s everybody-look-at-me dancing. It was the […]

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