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Whats just as confounding is how he manages to pull it off time after time.
ScottsGangsterfollows the ascension of Frank Lucas, a notorious 70s heroin kingpin played by Denzel Washington.
Credit: Arthur Elgort
Nobody flips a drug-trafficking metaphor better.
So tall and lanky, he boasts in no hurry, my suit, it should thank me.
ButGangsteris not purely a throwback album.
On Fallin, the records emotional climax, Jay-Z raps frantically as the walls close in.
Lucas, in the film and in real life, gets pinched and turns snitch.
For Jay-Z, that would be out of character.B+DOWNLOAD THIS: Hear a preview ofSuccessat barnesandnoble.com
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