Raekwon
“Striving for perfection, the Purple Tape reflection / Luxury rap pioneers in the Staten Island section.”
With 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...' (The Purple Tape), Raekwon the Chef codified Mafioso street cinema and invented a dense Shaolin dialect of slang that generations of New York MCs still study.
RHYME DENSITY
95
MULTIES
94
STORYTELLING
99
PUNCHLINES
93
FLOW POCKET
97
VERIFIED FREESTYLES & CLASSIC 16s (1)
Classic 16 • Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (Loud Records) (1995)
'Incarcerated Scarfaces' — Purple Tape Street Cinema
“Yo, what up son? Word is bond, we holding down the whole Staten Island peninsula.”