Jean Grae - Billy Killer

This is what I love about hip-hop - it tells the eternal stories, reinventing itself, feeding on itself like a mythical beast.

So this is the source material. It's The Marvelettes rejoicing in community and love.



And 9th Wonder sampled it, and Jean Grae gives it a ferocious twist, focussing on the flip-side of the story - not the happiness of love, but the bitterness of the struggle.



Now tell me that isn't clever?