Passion and Warfare 06/14/2016 What brings the listener up

What brings the listener up short on the posthumous The Big Picture (released over a year after Big L's death) is the way L's descriptions of violence seem like a self-fulfilling prophecy

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" and remaining in that decade for a cover of Chaka Khan's 1985 hit "Through the Fire

Both singers are aware they're approaching the twilight

This kind of refinement of a basic style is

Passion and Warfare 06/14/2016 What brings the listener upPersonnel: Steve Vai (various instruments), Nancy Fagen, Jamie Firlotte (vocals); David Rosenthal, Bob Harris, Pia Vai (keyboards, background vocals), Stuart Hamm (bass), Tris Imboden, Chris Frazier (drums); Pascal Fillet, David Coverdale, Laurel Fishman, Lillian Vai, Pam Vai, Joel Kaith, Corky Tanassy, Jamie Kornberg, Lauren Kornberg, Rudy Sarzo, Adrian Vandenberg, Corinne Larue, Famin', Darla Albright, Laura Gross, Rupert Henry, Bob Harris, Suzanna