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EXCLUSIVE | TROY x FAN RAN, TRACK001

by RVA Staff | COMMUNITY, CULTURE, HIP HOP & RAP

TROY and Fan Ran link up for a joint that’s less a track and more a cipher carved in concrete—an underground testament to Richmond’s hip-hop lineage, equal parts street sermon and boom-bap baptism. The energy is straight off a dubbed Maxell cassette, that golden-era...

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