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*** Mad Skillz, “From Where?,” Big Beat/Atlantic.The...

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*** Mad Skillz, “From Where?,” Big Beat/Atlantic.

The hottest thing out of Richmond, Va., since D’Angelo left for the Big Apple, Mad Skillz does his part to raise the stakes in the endless battle for rap supremacy. A top-caliber freestyle maniac, he spits off clever diss after clever diss in snare-drum heavy songs without running out of breath or ideas.

* New albums are rated on a scale of one star (poor), two stars (fair), three stars (good) and four stars (excellent).

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