MC Lyte is woman. Hear her roar. On her 1988 debut, Lyte as a Rock, the savvy Brooklyn native balances her obvious battle skills with perceptive street-corner observations, delivered fresh over funky drum-machine beats (provided by Audio Two, and Prince Paul, among others). Lyte introduced herself to the rap world with the single "I Cram to Understand U," a potent tale of losing her man to the real femme fatale: crack.
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