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Afrika Bambaataa/Slum Village: El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles

Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2002

HIP-HOP'S PAST and present converged at the El Rey Theatre on Thursday, and the results were predictably erratic. The first act, Slum Village, is a Detroit trio that has internalized all the lessons to be learned from its old De La Soul and Jungle Brothers albums.

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