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| | Music as Movies | Music | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper |
 | | The group doesn't announce to the world exactly where it is "straight outta," or revisit and represent the tough 'hoods where the rhymes were cultivated by "the strength of street knowledge," as NWA once put it. |
 | | For example, no one could make a song about the marvels of the Wonderbra except MC Solaar (Paradisiaque, 1997) because, one, he is a rapper, and, two, he comes from Paris, the city of high fashion. |
 | | Seattle rappers have often mentioned the rain and the area code (206), but no one has really made a beat that translates into Microsoft. |
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