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‘Time Out of Mind’ took risks, succeeded, and was rewarded. There wasn’t a Bob Dylan album like it before, and there likely won’t be another ever again.
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Reality rap in its truest sense Compton’s Most Wanted’s third studio album remains an elucidating and provocative listen 30 years on.
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