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    <body><![CDATA[So I'm not much into modern poetry (how on earth does one start, or even get bearings? You may well be diving but I, I am merely sinking), but you've got to keep trying things out. Anyway, if you've missed Blackalicious's epic performance of Dr. Williams's &quot;Release (Parts 1, 2, 3)&quot; on 2002...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41245375">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I give the poetry 2 1/2 stars, as I felt like the same poem was being repeated over and over again.  I also wasn't feeling that almost half this book is older material that continues to be recycled by Williams' publishers.  <br/><br/>Big props however for the prose pieces where Williams speaks dir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51754245">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nope, I still don't get hip-hop.<br/><br/>I got this as part of our Secret Santa project over at The True Meaning of Life forums from the guy I was Santa to. I do appreciate the chance to expand my horizons, but I don't think it really helped me to &quot;get&quot; hip-hop any more than I do alread...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14147213">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[still one of my favorite poets, and i'm not mad he was an actor first....most actor spoken work people are cornballs....sorry yall....it's true]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hip-Hop is still a genre of writing and entertainment outside my spectrum. I can appreciate hip-hop, but I don't see it as necessary to my personal culture and identity.<br/><br/>Still, liked this book and can appreciate were the author is coming from.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Isn't this just a retread of the first couple books? This collection led me to believe he knows he's out of good creative material. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[IF you haven't listened to Rakim on a green mountaintop then you heavn't heard hip-hop. The Ginsburg of Hip-Hop.]]></body>
    
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