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CLIPSE Hell Hath No Fu ry Re-Up ****

No one else has turned the monotonous and murderous life of street-level grinding and hustling into a hit record like the Thornton brothers did with their Lord Willin' album. Over claustrophobic, space-age beats from The Neptunes (their best production job ever), Pusha T and Malice caught the raw flavours and flow of life on the streets. For round two, very little has changed. The Neptunes fire up another set of sinister, sneaky, skewered melodies - it's Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo's best work since the last time they hung with the brothers - and the Thorntons rhyme about dark deeds and dubious deals. There's no moralising in Clipse's street music, just one uncompromising diary entry after another about what happens when the police are looking the other way. As always, the devil is in the details, with both MCs bouncing from one account of a real hard-knock life to the next, pausing only to add a stylish flourish here and there. Few can do it better. www.clipseonline.com Jim Carroll