Mixtape Of The Week: Joey Bada$$ 1999
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Joey Bada$$ - 1999
I don't understand Joey Bada$$. I mean, I understand his music just fine. If you've listened to rap for long enough, you understand it, too. It's the sort of warm, dusty, sun-faded boom-bap that New York rap crews were cranking out at a furious rate in, say, 1995. But what I don't understand is how Joey Bada$$ exists. Because, as ...
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