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| | Onyx |
 | | The band's breakthrough single "Slam" is their best work so far, with a nagging, catchy chorus, a heavy keyboard bassline, and a stunning rap from Sticky Fingaz that takes extraordinary liberties with meter and rhyme but works because his rhymes are a match for his manic delivery. |
 | | But nobody could possibly take this band seriously, except perhaps the confused middle class white boys who make up the majority of gangsta rap consumers. |
 | | Onyx managed to piss off a lot of people with their 1993 debut by relentlessly using the "N" word, the "F" word, the "B" word, the other 23 words, and generally celebrating guns and gangsta culture, without even the ring of truth that, say, Ice-T brings to his work. |
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