Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon and Mobb Deep’s Havoc hit the stage at Tabernacle on Thursday night. The tour stop was a celebration of three decades of hip-hop music and New York rap at its finest. From start to finish, the crowd was into the show for every minute.
Raekwon’s debut studio album, “Only Built For Cuban Linx,” was released on August 1, 1995, on Loud and RCA Records. Long before buying music involved tapping screens on your phone, albums were readily available in cassette form and could be purchased at your local Sam Goody. In New York City, they were also available at Beat Street, located in downtown Brooklyn. That’s where I bought the purple tape. If you know, you know.
“Cuban Linx” was distributed on a purple cassette, and not only did it look like nothing I had ever seen before, but it also sounded original in its own right. That music blasted from the speakers, and it felt nostalgic, according to Raekwon…