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Released as a prelude to his fourth album,
The Best of Biz Markie charts the musical history of one of hip-hop's most respected and prolific voices. Since he first appeared on the scene in 1986, Markie's music has no doubt brought a smile to many a gangster's face--he raps about shopping centres and "Pickin' Boogers" and steers clear of dissin' the ho's--but then this man doesn't need to badmouth anybody to make himself feel big and clever. Tracks from his three previous albums show you why. Biz's beatbox talents, first aired on 1986's
Make The Music With Your Mouth, speak of the true old-school and bring home that this is an album of classics. 1989's
Just A Friend and 1988's
Vapors (later remixed by Snoop Dogg) chart familiar territory for the hip-hop afficionado--crude samples, cartoonish riffs and long and drawn-out scratch routines lay their scent on simplistic beat sequences to define a landmark era in hip-hop. --
Ruby Shepheard