Like Nas' I Gave You Power, which is told from the perspective of a gun, Bilal's Second Child is a schizophrenic listen.
The last song on 1st Born Second, the 22-year-old Philly native's wildly original debut CD, the jam attempts to convey the "mental warfare, the state of confusion and rage" experienced by the young inhabitants of America's besieged inner cities.
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