Wanted: Dead or Alive (album)

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Wanted: Dead or Alive
Studio album by Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
Released	August, 13 1990
Genre	Hip hop
Length	58:37
Label	Cold Chillin' Records
Producer(s)	Benny Medina Tyrone Williams, and Large Professor
Professional reviews
All Music Guide 4.5/5 link
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo chronology
Road To The Riches (1989)	Wanted: Dead or Alive (1990)	Live and Let Die (1992)

Wanted: Dead or Alive is a 1990 (see 1990 in music) album by the hip hop duo Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential rap albums of the 1990's, and an indefinite classic status. This is in part due to the wide range of sounds implemented and expansion of G Rap's lyrical range, establishing him as one of, if not, the finest lyricist of his time. This album also marks the beginning of the Mafioso-rap subgenre later used by the likes of Raekwon. Kool G Rap is considered to have invented both mafioso and multi-syllabism into rap, and was a great influence on hip hop artists in the 90s and today.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Streets of New York"
2. "Wanted: Dead or Alive"
3. "Money in the Bank"
4. "Bad to the Bone"
5. "Talk Like Sex"
6. "Play It Again, Polo"
7. "Erase Racism"
8. "Kool Is Back"
9. "Play It Kool"
10. "Death Wish"
11. "Jive Talk"
12. "Polo Club"
13. "Rikers Island"

[edit] Videos

1. Streets of New York
2. Erase Racism