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" Back when the Walkmen was the new iPod, when piracy was a boombox with two tape decks, rap music wasn&amp;#039;t about busting gats, making &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; slap, or chrome wheels. It was about wearing out your cassette single of &amp;quot;Parents Just Don&amp;#039;t Understand&amp;quot; until the tape snapped. It was all about Philly-style party rap \u2014 embodied in the form of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, hot 16-bar verses, and dudes with high-top fades, rocking Fila windbreakers with spandex shorts and massive Air Jordans. Back then, the hip-hop coming out of Philadelphia was the shit -- an exuberant blend of pop choruses, Washington D.C.&amp;#039;s go-go beats, and the PG-rated comedic stylings of a still-unknown Will Smith. But when Mr. Smith went to Hollywood the sound died. Rap got &amp;quot;hard.&amp;quot; MC Hammer became &amp;quot;Hammer.&amp;quot; People &amp;quot;leaned with it&amp;quot; instead of doing the running man. Those good ol&amp;#039; days are about to return thanks to Plastic Little, a Philadelphia-based quartet that&amp;#039;s set to blow up your next block party. DJ SQUID has updated the old school party rap sound, adding a dash of Baltimore club grime, while emcees Jonthousand, PackofRats and No Body&amp;#039;s Child spit playful call-and-response rhymes, wrought with sarcastic references to pussy, cocaine and pop culture. Jonthousand provides a particularly poignant description of his collective&amp;#039;s sound on &amp;quot;Holla Plastique&amp;quot; off their latest She&amp;#039;s Mature: &amp;quot;Those Plastic Little dudes, they&amp;#039;re not hip hop. They make broke hop, sounds like Korean dance pop made for a video game that you never even heard of.&amp;quot; No matter the description, Plastic Little provides the new party soundtrack -- even legendary Wu Tang member, Ghostface Killah is down with the sound. Check out his guest appearance on Plastic Little&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Limited Edition Special Super Dunk Exclusive Giant Remix of the Mix&amp;quot; available for a limited time right here. This song is no longer available. Visit Plastic Little&amp;#039;s Website. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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