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Eminem and Common confront the same milestone — middle age — from opposite angles

July 18, 2024 • The two veteran rappers read as comic inversions of one another on their new albums, by turns renewed and restrained by the instincts that defined them at the start of their careers.

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Pete Rock: 'Real Could Be Another Word For Original'

July 1, 2014 • "I met James Brown as a kid. I was seven years old," says the renowned producer. "I wasn't the same since."

Pete Rock With Ali Shaheed Muhammad And Frannie Kelley

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