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Raekwon ft. Inspectah Deck, GZA, & Thea - “Rockstars”

Rae’s Only Built For Cuban Linx… Pt. II was one of those rare follow-up albums that actually lived up to its billing. Better than the first one? Well, no. That’s damn near impossible. But in 2009, a scant 14 years after Raekwon dropped the classic, he put out what was easily one of the top hip-hop albums of the past few years.

Well, it’s 2010, and the “Gold Deluxe Verison” re-release of OB4CL II just dropped. It features an additional six tracks, mostly remixes, but also this little ditty, “Rockstars.”

It’s a bluesy affair produced by RZA (think more Black Keys than Black Milk) with some horns and Dutch singer Thea’s smokey vocals. But the killer part of the song is Inspectah Deck’s verse. He comes in and leaves in a blaze, fitting his 16 into 8 before you can blink, much less think.