The Source Magazine – October 2002 (Murder Inc. Cover, Issue No. 157)

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Murder Inc. commands the October 2002 cover of The Source (Issue No. 157), as Ja Rule, Irv Gotti and Ashanti face the camera ready for war while the label answers questions about Nas and its place in the game. The issue counts down the Top 25 Beats Ever and the producers who made them, and catches up with Snoop Dogg on pimping the business his own way. Rakim, Trick Daddy, Styles P, Public Enemy, Scarface, Slum Village, Angie Martinez and Clipse round out a stacked table of contents. A definitive snapshot of hip-hop at the height of the Murder Inc. era, straight from the culture's most important magazine.