Menace II Society

Point-blank blasts from big-name firebreathers KRS-One’s Boogie Down Productions and Brand Nubian provide authority and the requisite straight-outta-the-‘hood menace. But the lesser known rapper Spice 1’s startlingly fresh ”Trigga Gots No Heart” and MC Eiht’s searing but restrained ”Streiht Up Menace” put new rapping on bottled-up wrath.