Comments on: Big Daddy Kane – The Unkut Interview

By: SNOOZE-B

SNOOZE-B — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:55:54 +0000

YO!WHATS UP THIS THE REAL DEAL WE HAD A SHOW AT THE ROOFTOP SOON AS OUR SINGLE DROPPED “ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY” (B)SIDE WAS “BUT I WAS KOOL”! WE PERFORMED SOME UN RELEASE SHIT CALLED LANNA AND THE CROWD WAS FEELING US, IN THE SONG I WAS DOING THE BEATBOX AND JAZZ WAS SPITTIN. ITS WAS A ROUTINE WE PUT TOGETHER SO WE IN THE HEART OF HARLEM STRAIGHT OUT OF SOUTH-PHILLY FOUR DEEP IN THEIR BACKYARD IN 88′ THEY GOT MAD AT A LINE IN THE SONG WHEN JAZZ SAY’S: I’M NOT SLICK RICK AND HE IS NOT DOUG (FUCK LOTTIE DOTTIE), AND CHILL WILL WAS IN THE HOUSE . BUT THEY ARE SOME BITING ASS NIGGAS IM SAYING BECAUSE I HAD THE BOX HAIRCUT AND BACKSTAGE BEFORE WE PERFORM KANE AND I WAS BUSTIN ON EACH OTHER THE TALKED ABOUT MY BOX AND ABOUT OUR CHEESE STEAKS IN PHILLY BUT ABOUT TWO MONTH LATER THAT NIGGA HAD MY WHOLE LOOK! HIM AND SCOOP AND SCRAP ALL THEM NIGGAS WAS JOCKING MY SHIT TRUST AND BELIEVE! THAT’S REAL RAP! 2ND BATTLE WAS AT THE AFTER MIDNIGHT…..WE HAD A SHOW. KANE CAME THROUGH WITH CHARLIE MACK AND JAZZ WENT AT THAT ASS. KANE ACT LIKE HE DIDNT DISS US IN PHILLY. HE WAS STRAIGHT BITCHIN, SO THEN HE THROUGH SOME CASH AT JAZZ (A BITCH ASS STUNT) SAME SHIT HE DID IN NEW YORK. BUT ITS ALL LOVE….ALL THAT WAS THERE KNOW WHAT REALLY TOOK PLACE. KANE GOT FUCKED UP WITH THE FREESTYLE FLOW OF PHILLY. THAT RAW SHIT WAS FROM JAZZ FRESH. KEEP IT REAL.

By: mac love

mac love — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:47:47 +0000

Kane gave 4 top mc’s nas,krs,and kool G he forgot
one person. BIG DADDY KANE!!!! Because we are BROOKLYN’S finest……onelove!!!

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:47:28 +0000

“sing my song” was only available on the promo tape of Looks Like A Job For” which also featured a slightly different mix of “The Beef Is On”…

By: Realizme

Realizme — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:52:19 +0000

That whole era of music around Kane’s reign was super stimulating. This article is a music history lesson. Thanks for the great article Robbie!

By: sj

sj — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:14:11 +0000

im gonna tell u this love his shit but fell of with that taste of chocolate kane was way before his time what he tried to do biggie did a couple years later and killed it i guess we were not ready for that shitbut u know sopmething nobody talks about thaT

By: DOC SAMSON

DOC SAMSON — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:22:25 +0000

I agree, man. I heard the Finesse/Percee P battle, and like i said, it was on his album. Freestyle was re-defined somewhere. I like both. Supernat is hip hop. But man, I miss the days when mc’s would get real cerebral or just funky with it. Percee p’s album that dropped? THAT’S classic freestyle. So both definitions are cool with me. BTW, I copped the BDK pumas. Hottest kicks out, yo! I’m looking for the MC Shans now. hard to get. real exclusive.

By: kevin beacham

kevin beacham — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:59:03 +0000

the funny thing is if you listen to the NMS battles cats would get dissed for “going off the head”…it was the other way around. A lot of the top cats, thought it was about spitting your best written verse and that’s what all those guys did; mele mel, caz, tla rock, etc… A lot of them thought the going off the head thing was corny and just jokes and not really the “art of lyricism”. I like both styles if you can do them well. I never rhymed off the top in a battle until the 90s. Really the tide started to turn when certain mcs made rhyming of the top a focus. I’d say the first to really make a point of it was KRS One with lines like “I can anytime on the spot rhymes…”. Then in the later days of the NMS battles people started to really get good at it like Supernatural. Then you have to credit The Stretch Armstrong for really encourging it (props to Kurious) and then finally the west coast with Freestyle Fellowship, Project Blowed and Heiro played a big part in stressing the importance of it. Of course it’s always been around but I’m talking about the viewing of “rhyming off the top” as an “art” and not just something you did when you were kicking it with your boys messing around…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:44:18 +0000

DOC SAMSON it’s funny and interesting that you mentioned that 1st album by Lord Finesse, because in that Percee P vs. Lord Finesse battle @ Patterson Projects, back in 1989, all of Lord Finesse’s verses from that battle, wound up being that 1st album.

However, it’s true though somewhere in the early-mid 90′s the term & legacy “freestyle” got changed & flipped to being “going off the head”, I think that catalyst of that change was in part from when MC’s would get dissed for not being able to go off the head in MC battles

By: DOC SAMSON

DOC SAMSON — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:40:06 +0000

I agree with Kevin B! I used to mc. started writing raps in 86, and i can tell ya for real, freestyling during that time mean rapping with no topic. Just flowing. Cats came along later and changed the definition into the off the top thing. I mean think: Rakim used to label himself the “freestyle fanatik” and all his rhymes were written. Even KRS1, when he battled mele mel, the rhymes he used ended up on “I’m still #1″. I love cats like Supernatural who take the off the top of the head thing to the next level, but i prefer the written battle raps cats had because they’d take they’re rhymes to the next level. To me, Lord Finesse’ first album is a freestyle album. Rakim’s “Follow the leader” album is an album of the illest freestyle rhymes ever to be heard by human eardrums. Long live the Kane is a freestyle album written rhymes can unleash some ill lyrics and commit verbal assault.

By: kevin beacham

kevin beacham — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:05:32 +0000

yeah, I know what freestyle means. Actually Fearless 4 lay claim to introduce the word in that form on thier ’83 release, “fearless freestyle”. In the early/mid 80s rhyming off the top was called just that or “gift of gab”. My point here is if it is a battle I feel it should be “off the top” or a “freestyle” verse not on your album. I guess everyone has their own rules on what is and not ok in a battle. I was a battle mc from ’81 to about ’91 and I always just had verses written just to battle and to showcase in ciphers that never were for songs.

By: MERCILESZ

MERCILESZ — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:12:42 +0000

ummm freestyle doesnt mean make it up as u go….it means a freestyle like whatever style u want…jus a lil history from the bx 4 u guys

By: kevin beacham

kevin beacham — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:13:36 +0000

yeah, i don’t have a issue with the “freestyle” ending up on a record. The question here is if it had already been released but I think I got confirmation on that from the source. That first battle took place on march 5th, 1988 so I’m guessing “1/2 steppin” wasn’t released yet..

By: DOC SAMSON

DOC SAMSON — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:48:02 +0000

One thing to keep in mind, as that during that 87/89 era, rappers freestyles usually ended up in their albums 9 times out of 10. I heard raps kane kicked on mr. magic, in 88, that ended up on “it’s a big daddy thing.”

By: kevin beacham

kevin beacham — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:48:57 +0000

I’m really interested in this kane vs jazz fresh battle. I’ve heard the first one where I think Jazz got him. I mean it certainly seems biased or something because. Kane comes on and makes the comments about jazz and then spits two rhymes then Jazz comes up to respond and has the better rhyme to me. Then Kane comes on and says it’s a battle then and does his lyrics from “ain’t no 1/2 steppin” but then Jazz doesn’t get to respond…

does anyone have these two recordings:

1)jazz fresh’s performance at the rooftop? I want to hear what he said that sparked it off in the first place

2)the 2nd battle in philly

i’ve been trying to solve this mystery since it happened. I remember reading about it in the source.

Also, I have seen it listed as happening in ’87 but I read about this battle in the source which wasn’t out in ’87 so when did it actualy happen? I’m guessing ’89 cause if Kane throwing the $ on stage was in reference to “it’s all about money” the Crush Nation’s single on select that came out in ’89. IF that is true then it wouldn’t be before “ain’t no 1/2 steppin” came out so he would have been doing a rhyme from a released song???

By: Kash

Kash — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:21:12 +0000

Here’s part 1 right here… Also, pardon my error. It was the Rooftop and not the Midnight…

http://www.zrohourpodcast.com/m3u/BigDaddyKanevsJazzFresh.m3u