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Schoolly D: Am I Black Enough For You (Jive HIP85/CD) ***

Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 2 September 1989

AT THE time of The White(y) Album Sonic Youth nominated J Mascis for president. In their Rock 'N' Roll For President scheme Schoolly D was to play the Quail to J's Bush. While Schoolly ain't no chicken, he seems to have taken the Youth's nomination to heart — this is the Big D's cauterising political agenda, his Black album.

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