How a white guy from Nova Scotia managed to find a wide audience rapping like the Dukes Of Hazzard narrator with a sore throat is something of a mystery. But Buck 65 is a master of odd detail and populates his tunes with the kinds of characters rarely seen in hip hop. In many ways, his success is a great acknowledgement of just how many white kids listen to hip hop--a fact he embraces by having never succumbed to misguided attempts to make himself more street.
Situation is another collection of intelligently composed music and honest-yet-bizarre tales of worlds outside the present-day sphere.
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