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Song · 1993 · Los Angeles hip hop

Murder Was the Case

1993

★ 5.8 editorial score

A Faustian bargain told in the first person, later expanded into an eighteen-minute film Dre co-directed with Fab Five Freddy.

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Los Angeles hip hop West Coast hip hop Gangsta rap G-funk Hip hop

Subject

Death The devil Prison

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