Soul on Ice

"Nature of the Threat" is the reason this record still gets brought up — six minutes of rapid-fire history lesson over a beat that just sits back and lets him work. Kass raps like he's got something to prove on every verse, dense multisyllables, no hooks wasted. The rest is solid West Coast boom bap, but that one track alone justifies the whole thing. Skip nothing, but that's the one you play first.

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