
Bob Power, Engineer and Producer Who Excavated Hip-Hop’s Low End, Dead at 73
Bob Power, the celebrated engineer and producer who worked on classic albums by A Tribe Called Quest, Erykah Badu, the Roots, and more, has died

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Bob Power, the celebrated engineer and producer who worked on classic albums by A Tribe Called Quest, Erykah Badu, the Roots, and more, has died

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