N***a Please

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If the off-key singing, weird interjections (“I wanna see blood!”), and generally joyful madness of <i>Return to the 36 Chambers</i> wasn’t enough for you, there’s always <i>N***a Please</i>. In the intervening year, Ol’ Dirty Bastard had transformed himself from an offbeat-but-deeply-entertaining MC to one of the first rappers to really be able to hold his own on crossover R&B tracks—a quality most evident in his feature on Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” and, later, the Mýa/Pras track “Ghetto Supastar.” “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” was catchy for a hardcore rap track, but the Kelis-featuring, Neptunes-produced “Got Your Money” feels like a pivotal moment not only in the hybridizing of rap and R&B, but of hip-hop becoming the dominant sound in mainstream pop. .

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