Can an informed Coli breh please put me on to Big Daddy Kane's Legacy?

[Supa]

Top 5:
Ain't No Half Stepping
Young, Gifted, and Black
Set it Off
Raw
Smooth Operator

He was up there with Rakim and G Rap for the best of his era. He started to play the ladies man role too hard and lost his favor with a lot of fans. He's in my top 5.

 

[mson]

Wrath of Kane
Raw
Set it off
Smooth operator
Half stepping

He also released albums consistently - each year for a while.

Then he just stopped in 1998.

fukking why?

Kool Keith released albums like a machine.

Sounds like you know plenty about his history already.

 

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Wrath of Kane
Raw
Set it off
Smooth operator
Half stepping





Sounds like you know plenty about his history already.

Ya, off a quick read from Wikipedia lol

I have to check his classic albums through and through

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

was heavily influenced by 70s soul music and blaxploitation flicks.............supremely raw and sharp lyricist but smooth at the same time.....he SANG the chorus to a song on his first album (people forget)

combo of raw and smooth gave him male and female fans............

he was banging so many wives and girlfriends that people created a false rumor that he had aids, so that their girls would be afraid to be his groupies

But catering more to the smooth side( and forgetting to balance it out with rawness) is what lead to him falling off.........wearing purple bullfighter outfits on camera , releasing duets with older R&B legends, rumored to be doing suspect shyt in Madonna's secret sex book................all signaled the end for Kane's male audience



to me kane is a top 10 rapper

hollup, THIS is Kane singing?





still classic tho

i only recently (past three years) started listening to BDK and only heard his first two LPs in their entirety.

No less than top 10 in my book tho

 

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hollup, THIS is Kane singing?





still classic tho

i only recently (past three years) started listening to BDK and only heard his first two LPs in their entirety.

No less than top 10 in my book tho

Those drums are hard. They pop out.

His singing I guess is crack cocaine as well

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

Those drums are hard. They pop out.

His singing I guess is crack cocaine as well

yeah, Marley had the hats on some Three 6 shyt, before Three 6

i thought (still do) whoever singing it sounded moist as hell but it grows on you and i sing along with it myself

 

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yeah, Marley had the hats on some Three 6 shyt, before Three 6

i thought (still do) whoever singing it sounded moist as hell but it grows on you and i sing along with it myself

Word, and lol

 

[Taadow]

Kane was a superhero.
I would venture to say he is the first “punchline” rapper...not only because he had some witty lines,
but also because he was throwing them so fast, you remembered them more than you remembered the
whole verse. I say that to say, prior to him rappers were rapping whole, connected verses so you could follow the narrative. Not to say there weren’t records where he did that, but where he changed the game is Kane (I would argue) is the first MC whose main steez was “put on the beat and Imma kill it”. And, he could do it while dancing.


Top 5 records:

Ain’t No Half-Steppin’
Set It Off
Raw
This Is For The Lover In You (one of the best girl records imo)
Wrath Of Kane

A thing that gets overlooked imo for Kane is he was a great feature artist.

Marley Marl - The Symphony
Heavy D - Don’t Curse
Public Enemy - Burn Hollywood Burn


He “fell off” in the public consciousness because of non-rap chit, and that’s a shame.
His ultimate undoing (as was many MCs of his era) was trying to keep up with the times.
He didn’t need to do that, he was cool enough doing what he was doing. And that’s difference
between he and say, LL (I say LL is the #1 GOAT).

I rank Big Daddy Kane #12 of all-time.