“Time After Time” is the name of the episode in question. It marked a return of the acclaimed series The Wire to its focus on the Barksdale crew, after Season Two tarried with the crooked bosses of Baltimore’s ports. Some people consider the second season a kind of sophomore slump. Maybe Open Mike Eagle does, having written an ode to its succession with our highlighted track “the wire s3 e1.” An ode to something anyway. The Los Angeles rapper lets the free associations flow on this medium tempo, megaphone jammer from his latest another triumph of ghetto engineering. Featuring Blu.

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