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the "Bullet Boys", "Winger", "Trixter", "Europe", "Warrant", and of course "Lizzie Borden". There were of course some really good bands who came from this bad marriage of spandex and Air Jordan's, bands like Van Halen, Queensryche, and the Randy Rhoads fired "Blizzard of Oz". But in the end the bloated rotting carcass' of the bad metal bands were the nitrogen that sprouted Grunge. Gangsta Rap;Funny as it seems gangsta rap was an outgrowth of the "I'm better then you" wordplay of the early hip hop music made in the Bronx and Brooklyn in the late seventies and early eighties, by crews like Boogie Down Productions, Afrika Bambataa, the Jungle Brothers,
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