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500 Greatest Albums

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The World Is a Ghetto - War


The World Is a Ghetto - War
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A band of badasses doing a Latin-funk song about a Latino TV show from the Fifties — that was "The Cisco Kid," and the band was War, L.A.'s answer to Parliament-Funkadelic. But War were serious: The title song is a sober reflection on inner-city life that hangs in the air like smoke from a riot.

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