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CD Review: Black Spade, To Serve With Love

Feb 25, 2008 6:43 PM Jason Jurgens (Writer)

With Common and Mos Def going all Hollywood, St. Louis MC Black Spade arrives just in time to help you remember the days when hip-hop championed creativity and fueled a culture of poetic and hungry youth. Spade's flow falls somewhere between the aforementioned rappers, but where Common comes off sappy and militant, Spade breathes life into anthems of love and hate with his relaxed, introspective cadence and eclectic beats, as on "She's the One ('20s Love Song)." Spade has vocal chops, showcasing a confidence to put his rhymes on the back burner and let the songbird out ("Actioneer").

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