Big Daddy Kane was basically washed at like 25, how did that happen?
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Devil Plisken…CMS
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In hindsight Kane’s spot got took by this guy. Heavy D successfully transitioned from the 80s & 90s with beats which reflected the times & smart moves
Listen to all of Heavy’s hits and tell me you couldn’t hear BDK on these
Even this nikka Father MC got mileage out of being Kane better than Kane was
BDK’s career would’ve been different if he got down Uptown for the mainstream shyt & Premier to balance it out
Under-rated reply.
Lots of Kane's contemporaries would never be as big as they were in 86-88.
Kool G. Rap, EPMD, Rob Base, etc...
People also forgot that even with the debut of LLTK, these albums dropped 
Thats off the tip of the iceberg
. Dial back the years if Kane would had dropped while Hip Hop was Yes Yes Yall'ing, he would have been the GOAT.
Sadly, 88 alone was make it and break it, luckily he still reign supreme with that debut but the fall off was a ticking bomb away.
Thats off the tip of the iceberg
. Dial back the years if Kane would had dropped while Hip Hop was Yes Yes Yall'ing, he would have been the GOAT.Sadly, 88 alone was make it and break it, luckily he still reign supreme with that debut but the fall off was a ticking bomb away.
Devil Plisken…CMS
Veteran
To the extreme
I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up the stage
And wax a chump like a candle???
This guy was a BDK stan clearly and you can hear it in his flow & cadence. The truth it isn’t that Kane’s style fell off but other people figured out how to run with his shyt when he lacked direction
HollywoodP
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none of them powerhouse rappers from the golden age were really poppin like that when their era ended and the next one started. LL is the exception who was able to successfully transition but even he had some growing pains. Rakim's music aged the most gracefully but his popularity had declined by the time him and Eric B dropped their last album together. Every rapper dropped their DJ and went solo. KRS-One dropped Return of the Boom Bap and failed to go gold. Slick Rick's sophomore album flopped, then he went to prison. He dropped some cool shyt with Outkast after that but his rap career was essentially over. People were cool on Epmd by the time they dropped their 3rd album. Public Enemy cooled off. Run DMC too. Kane def struggled to find footing and made some horrible career decisions so he became the poster child for this...but all them nikkas was looked at as old school by 94.
He was very much "underground" after that.
This was classic to me...
KRS-One (album) - Wikipedia
He even had one more hit in him
But it was over.
Wasted as in he took good production and made a wack album with it
I think it is simpler than this. Kane was never on LL's level in terms of popularity. Kane was going Gold at best, LL was going multiplatinum. LL could afford to suffer in terms of popularity for a while and still have a chance to recover. Once Kane fell off the map, on the other hand, that was it.
Kane's 1998 album Veteranz Day was actually decent. He was sharp as ever lyrically, and the songs were decent/good. The problem was it got no promotion in terms of the label, had no prominent guests to connect him to a new generation of fans, etc. If he had had a chance to follow up on the features from 1999-2001 that you mentioned, maybe he could have had a more substantial comeback. But even then, he was never going to become a platinum artist and probably not even Gold. It would have just been a strong comeback relative to what his status had been.
