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Rap about crack cocaine hit big last year, with Young Jeezy and Juelz Santana flooding the streets and the charts. So when Ghostface Killah announced he was releasing an album christened after fishscale, a pure form of Peruvian flake cocaine, trepidation struck.

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Remy Ma opens her solo debut with an incredulous question: "What do you mean, I'm your second favorite female rapper?" As far as she's concerned, gender can eat it. Eyeing the rap landscape and seeing only dudes for miles, the former Terror Squad poet, who outshone Fat Joe on last summer's "Lean Back," angles to play the boys' way.

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Houston rappers Paul Wall and Chamillionaire have been friends since they were young'uns, back when candy meant more to them than candy paint. Escalating as compadres in the Color Changin' Click, the peaked with 2002's Get Ya Mind Correct, a fierce self-released album that sold more than 150,000 copies and hyped the Houston rap scene, garnering hefty major-label deals for both of them.

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"Y'all don't really know my life," Missy Elliott insists on her sixth album. She's right -- but The Cookbook doesn't get us any closer to understanding who she is.

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In the early 1990s, post-wall Berlin discovered its love for techno deep in the Cold War rubble. Newly energized by liberation and unity, the city became a hot spot for activist artists and DJs. Minimal techno/ breaks goddess Ellen Allien felt its pull, teaching herself to make beats in the basement of a communal squat and, in 1999, founding the label BPitch Control.