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It meant something born of the streets, or something able to build a mythology around the streets and sell it without selling out.
#The lox we are the streets edited skin#
But the “real hip-hop” archetype has jumped into so much new skin that it’s hard to know what it even means anymore. The phrase still exists, popping its head up from time to time, usually when a young rapper born in the late ’90s offers a shocking opinion on an artist that they weren’t alive to experience.
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