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The Black Sabbath track that inspired a hip-hop classic | Far Out
So how did Black Sabbath, a group widely regarded for pioneering heavy metal music, end up inspiring the sound of late 1990s New York? Let’s take a closer look. Originally released in 1998, Busta Rhymes’ Extinction Level Event (The Final World Front) is, as the name suggests, an expansion on the apocalypse theme the rapper explored in his first two albums, The Coming (1996) and When Disaster Strikes (1997).
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