And while some of the Northeastern Corridor rappers who have emerged in the '90s or 2000s have been influenced by West Coast and Southern gangsta rap (Staten Island's Wu-Tang Clan and Queens' Mobb Deep are among the hardcore rappers who brought gangsta rap to New York City in the '90s), Tah has favored an alternative rap aesthetic rather than a thug life/gangsta aesthetic -- which is not to say that his music is not edgy. Tah's rhymes are definitely edgy, and he can be sexually explicit at times (Lay That Pipe is one of Tah's more sex-minded rhymes). Tah, a skillful freestyler, knows his way around a battle rhyme, but when he wages verbal warfare on a sucker MC, it isn't about thuggery, but rather is a form of musical sportsmanship (which is where Big Daddy Kane, Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, Kool Moe Dee, and many other East Coast rappers of the '80s were coming from when they unleashed their battle rhymes back in the day). In 2006, Tah released his debut album, Sunshine or Pure Shade, on his own Push in the Bush Records label. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi
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