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Written by: Robbie Ettelson

Since I couldn’t cover everyone last round….more kid rap!
Shyheim The Rugged Child
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Wu-Tang.
Wishes The 90′s Never Ended? Nah, he’s happy his voice broke at last.
Career Highlight: Either appearing on the Biggie/Tupac Madison Square Garden freestyle or copping a feel from T-Boz at the ‘Waterfalls’ video shoot.
Current Career Status: Only Built 4 Sausage Linx.
A+
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Motown exec Kedar Massenburg.
Wishes The 90′s Never Ended? You bet.
Career Highlight: May have lost virginity to Erykah Badu.
Current Career Status: Dropped a mix CD called Back 2 Business in 2005.
The Whooliganz
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Soul Assasins.
Wishes The 90′s Never Ended? More like they wish the 90′s never happened.
Career Highlight: Opening for Cypress Hill at the height of their powers.
Current Career Status: James Caan’s son Scott got into acting and the other dude is now QB beat genius The Alchemist.
Le Juan Love
Mentor/Ghostwriter: 2 Live Crew.
Wishes The 90′s Never Ended? Make that the 80′s.
Career Highlight: Best Miami Bass kid rapper ever.
Current Career Status: Now performing as a hype man for JT Money.
The Puppies
Mentor/Ghostwriter: I’m guessing Disco Rick was involved.
Wishes The 90′s Never Ended? Sure, why not.
Career Highlight: Having a Top 40 hit.
Current Career Status: Managing several Fantasy Football teams.
Souljah Boy
Mentor/Ghostwriter: MC Hammer was certainly an inspiration.
Wishes The 90′s Never Ended? Doesn’t care, was in a nappy.
Career Highlight: Upsetting old rappers.
Current Career Status: Pwning n00bs on Xbox Live, or so he would like us to believe.
Mobb Deep
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Tragedy, Large Pro.
Wishes The 90′s Never Ended? No doubt. They had the game in an effin’ headlock from ’94-’96.
Career Highlight: The Infamous and Hell On Earth.
Current Career Status: Still churning out music of questionable merit (with the exception of the awesome HNIC2),
MC Jade aka MC Percy aka Tragedy
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Marley Marl.
Wishes The 90′s Never Ended? Could care less.
Career Highlight: Masterminding CNN’s The War Report.
Current Career Status: Back in the bing.
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mobb deep and black moon forever?
liked the vicious album.
shyheim’s 2nd was nice.
I had to go with Tragedy,yeah he’s in the BING-yet again,but his legacy includes-The Rebel & Live Motivator from Marley’s:in Control vol.1,and his Opus-self titled:Intelligent Hoodlum,featured groundbreaking and(mostly uncredited Production)from LARGE PROFESSOR.And this dude(Trag) influenced most of the mid ’90′s emcees in Queens,so it’s Tragedy all day for me.
Comment by R.Jones 02.10.09 @I posted in part 1 to include Wascals and kaution so as not to forget the west coast lol .. i guess website was actin up .. i also did cite mobb deep .. good shyt robbie
Comment by dolo 02.10.09 @These 2 articles have been f’n hilarious. I guess I never realized how many kiddy rappers there were.
I gotta go with Trag tho his shit was sharp and he gets bonus points for putting CNN on.
Comment by Frost Gamble 02.10.09 @There’s mad videos on youtube of Shyheim talking about his ‘bid upstate’.
Comment by farns 02.10.09 @Think I’m gonna go with Trag. He was putting out quality stuff at a real young age. I would go with Mobb but their early stuff never really caught my ear.
Shyheim would be third. The rest are trash. I remember I had some promo stickers for A+ and DJ Muggs’ solo LP and I stuck them all over a stop sign or something.
The Puppies had a top 40 with that? Never knew. I think their highlight was that “Your Momma’s on Crack Rock” song though.
Comment by haroon 02.10.09 @definitely Trag. I gotta add who the first kid rapper I heard, T Omar in ’85. Had a track called “I’m Only 9″ on Raspur. Actually that same night I heard that track. I heard Hassan’s “Co’ Rock Stuff” that had a ill verse by “Little 7″ with the classic props to his DJ, “7-11, he deserves recognition, I’ll be glad when he can find some competition!”.
Comment by kevin beacham 02.10.09 @What about Uptown of “Dope On Plastic” fame. Wasn’t he like 13 when he dropped that “Dope On Plastic” joint?
Comment by Brock 02.11.09 @Putting Tragedy in is a cheat imo because that’s an OG right there. But Shyhiem’s “On and On” is a great track, and A+’s Latch-Key Child record is crazy.
Comment by Supreme Neck Protector 02.11.09 @Who was that kid who appeared on that one De La 12″ ‘Mack Daddy on the left’ – was that Chi Ali – I used to like that joint.
Comment by ED209˚ 02.11.09 @Anyone remember T. Omar with “I’m Only Nine”? He was on Rapsur so I guess he was Bobby Jimmy’s protege. I don’t know if that was the first kiddy rap record but it might be the worst.
Comment by Thunderthud 02.11.09 @I reckon it’s got to be be Shyheim for the ‘kid rap’ win, wheras Trag was more of a ‘conventional’ hip hop legend, ultimately, and Mobb Deep and Tha Youngstas are more your moody teenagers.
I might be prejudiced by the xylophones on the Premier remix of ‘On and On’, however. Ace remix.
Comment by Eyechild 02.11.09 @“nerd comment”: funny! but i sincerely doubt jermaine dupri ever wrote a rhyme himself! if you listen to “jump”, that reminds of “mad” skillz style… in “ghostwriter” he says:
“Remember the little kids, the one that was in ______ group?
I’m the reason you though they lil raps was so cute” and also “fuck Jermaine Dupri and his whole label cause I ain’t never get my plaque, nig*a”
ps so… when a ghostwriting post?
LL > RUN DMC
Serch > UTFO
Del > Ice Cube
etc…
That Le Juan Love video is on some Milky Bar Kid tip – The Milky Bar Kid never rapped though.. he left that up to Kevin from Grange Hill
Comment by ED209˚ 02.13.09 @hardcore rhymes thou, you gotta peep the b-side ed… hard shit all day
Comment by DANKWEED 02.13.09 @Yeah Robbie.what up with a ghostwriters post??
Kane > LL (walking with a panther)
Kam > Ice-Cube(Death certificate:Life side)
Del > Ice Cube,Yo Yo( Amerikkka’s most&Make way)
Dj Bobbybobcat > LL(I’M Bad,I Need Love)
^ This week is gonna be all about Special Requests…including the Useless DJs and Ghsitwriters posts.
Comment by Robbie 02.16.09 @Yo that dude Le Juan Love had a better song that Stretch & Bob use to spin on their show …… something about school, can’t really remember ….. I gotta go find that tape ……
Comment by BlueHayze 02.17.09 @check dis best kid rapper in the south rite now only 12 and shes a female not only a rapper actress, and performer http://www.myspace.com/tekaboomonkeyjuice
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