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GOLDEN ERA

1998 IN REVUE: THE YEAR OF THE BIG BANK BOMB

BY DADDY LION CHANDELL

by Daddy Lion Chandell

The music industry has been laughing all the way to the bank, and no one will even bother to breathe otherwise to that fact. In The Hip-Hop Nation, for instance, after one major player made all the RBIs and home runs necessary to become MVP, other major players began to follow suit. It was not necessarily because of this major player that major progress was occurring with these other players but the competition was on, the game was thesa me, and the goals were pretty much the same. The result--winners on all four bases.

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