NEW YORK (Billboard) - Patience is a virtue -- just ask 36-year-old rapper Redman. It has been six years since his last studio album, 2001's "Malpractice." Sign up here. But with his latest effort ...

Redman tells how Biz Markie made him battle across NYC and how he was often accused of being a ringer. ... Arguably one of the most versatile rappers in the history of the art form.