Wanted: Dead Or Alive - Special Edition Extended Play vinyl

Marley Marl remained on board for Kool G Rap & DJ Polo's second album. With a wider range of sounds and the expansion of G Rap's lyrical range, "Wanted: Dead Or Alive" is wholly deserving of classic status. The opening "Streets Of New York" remains one of the most thrilling and unique rap singles released; the sparse rhythm, adorned with assured piano runs complement the song very nicely. G Rap outlines more vivid scenes than one film could possibly contain. The track cemented their role as East Coast legends and showed Kool G Rap's talent as an adept storyteller. Likewise, "Talk Like Sex" is the nastiest, raunchiest thing he ever recorded, with "I'm pounding you down until your eyeballs pop out" acting as one of the few printable lines in the song. The boasts, as ever, are in no short supply, but "Erase Racism" takes a break from the normal proceedings with guest spots from Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie. It's both funny and sobering. This album is only part of a major swarm of brilliant rap records from 1990, but it will never be lost in it. The album is important because the release influenced Rakim and Kane to step their game up to levels they didn't know they could go to.

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