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Common and Pete Rock Keep True-School Hip-Hop Alive
The Auditorium, Vol. 1 brings together an all-time great producer and MC as a new dynamic duo upholding rap's classic traditions Thirty years ago, Common looked back ruefully at his favorite genre in “I Used to Love H.E.R.,” his classic riff on hip-hop …