What’s truly rare is to see one such icon so successfully pass the torch on to another artist who can rise to the same status. Throughout the 1990’s we went down this road time and again with the likes of Busta Rhymes, Tupac Shakur, Nas and Redman among others – all of whom eclipsed their fame in hip-hop to become international icons, movie stars, and even power brokers whose clout could get their friends record deals and a subsidiary level of fame all their own. At certain moments in time when rap music and pop music intersect culturally to give birth to a superstar, his or her songs and cameo appearances on other people’s songs seem to be all you hear on the radio.
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