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Classic Album Review: Infamous Syndicate | Changing The Game

Blues-guitar legend Buddy Guy lends his support to his daughter's gangsta-rap LP.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


The up-and-coming female Chicago rap duo Infamous Syndicate can boast a famous lineage — one member is the daughter of blues legend Buddy Guy.

But Changing The Game has nothing to do with the blues, unless you count the blue language. This is hard-knuckle gangsta rap of the roughest, toughest variety, with Rashawnna and Lateefa trading off blistering, motor-mouthed sassfests over a steady rolling bed of head-bobbing hip-hop. Still, Buddy must be proud — he lends his sizzling six-string work to a couple of these tracks.