DSD:Nice & Smooth/Special Ed

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Choose the winner.

Nice & Smooth.
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44%
Youngest in Charge.
10
56%
 
Total votes: 18

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DSD:Nice & Smooth/Special Ed

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Tuesday, May 16th, 1989.

Two LPs: Nice & Smooth's first, on Fresh / Sleeping Bag Records, Special Ed's debut, off Profile.

Pick your favorite and / or the best album, doesn't matter.

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Re: DSD:Nice & Smooth/Special Ed

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Ed for me.

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Ed. But i like the Nice & Smooth record

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Re: DSD:Nice & Smooth/Special Ed

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Philaflava wrote:Ed for me.
same for me
i got maybe a little problem with his second album vs second by bronx duo but not wit first one :cheers:

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Re: DSD:Nice & Smooth/Special Ed

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Special Ed goes above and beyond many albums of that time with the level of creativity he brought on that album, though I like Nice & Smooth's debut alot.

A cool real-life connection between Special Ed and Nice & Smooth: I've run into Greg Nice a few times when we both got a cut at the Harlem branch of this barbershop run by one of Ed's former dancers: http://www.levelsbarbershop.com/locations.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: DSD:Nice & Smooth/Special Ed

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Special Ed.

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Re: DSD:Nice & Smooth/Special Ed

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Nice & Smooth. That LP is such a great mix of Bronx party rap and smooth Harlem shit.

Plus the Early To Rise video intro was a key moment in accidental :arrow:


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