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Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, an ongoing KQED series about Bay Area hip-hop history.
A-Wax had just gotten out of jail when he decided to hit up a hotel party in Concord.
The year was 2001, and the aspiring lyricist from Pittsburg, California found himself talking to a local rapper from Antioch who’d just been released from prison. The pair made plans to record together that night, and connected in the studio shortly afterward…