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Metal Faces, Rap Masks: Identity and Resistance in Hip Hop's Persona Artist

Pages 297-311 | Published online: 16 Aug 2006

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  • ——— “No Nose Job.” 1991 Sons of the P Tommy Boy
  • ——— “The Return of the Crazy One.” 1993 The Body Hat Syndrome Tommy Boy
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  • KMD 2001 Black Bastards Metal Face Records
  • ——— “What a Niggy Know?” 2001 Black Bastards Metal Face Records
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  • Lost Boyz “Legal Drug Money.” 1996 Legal Drug Money Universal
  • ——— “Music Makes Me High.” 1996 Legal Drug Money Universal
  • MF DOOM “Rhymes Like Dimes.” 2000 Operation: Doomsday Fondle Em
  • ——— “Tick, Tick.” 2000 Operation: Doomsday Fondle Em
  • Murs 2003 End of the Beginning Definitive Jux
  • NWA “Express Yourself.” 1988 Straight Outta Compton Ruthless
  • ——— “I Ain't Tha One.” 1988 Straight Outta Compton Ruthless
  • Paris “Bush Killa.” 1992 Sleeping with the Enemy Scarface
  • ——— “Coffee, Donuts, and Death.” 1992 Sleeping With the Enemy Scarface
  • Run DMC “Sucker MCs (Krush Groove I).” 1984 Run DMC Def Jam
  • RZA 1998 RZA as Bobby Digital Gee Street
  • ——— 2003 Birth of a Prince Sanctuary
  • Sage Francis “Narcissist.” 2002 The Known Unsoldier Strange Famous
  • St. Lunatics “Real Niggaz.” 2001 Free City Universal
  • A Tribe Called Quest “Show Business.” 1992 The Low End Theory Jive

Videography

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