The Purple Tape

Another name for Raekwon's Only Built for Cuban Linx... album. Cuban Linx is commonly referred to as The Purple Tape because the original cassette's plastic was entirely purple; Raekwon marked the tape distinctively as a reference to drug dealers' method of tagging their product.

GFK: Eh bruh, what you listenin to on them headphones?
GZA: I'm up on the purple tape.

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