So could someone drop some info on Supreme Magnetic?
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Sorry if I am reposting, a fair few pages to go through, but OP was kinda wrong:
Supreme Magnetic, Spanish nikka, he ran the Supreme Team (Not the Queens Supreme Team, they all were cool with each other though) with his brother Rap in the 1980s, they ran Fort Greene Brooklyn. They ran with Killer Ben, the Real 50 Cent, Billy Blast (Bill Blast is the guy Kool G. Rap name drops in the first verse on "Ill Street Blues", that's his nikka). And they all used to run with Rakim and Eric B. and Freddie Foxx and others were apart of their crew. Real gangsters from Brooklyn. Supreme's son is the kid in Rakim's "Microphone Fiend" video kicking the speakers.
F: So, how do you go from being AG Da Corner, now, then how did you get into the rap game?
AG: I started rapping about, I wanna say, fourteen/fifteen years ago. It was something I always loved, man. I used to listen to rap music—I was a big, big fan of rap music for years. It’s funny, me being from the East Coast, my first real exposure to hip-hop was a Doc tape that was given to me. The Doc is an MC from Texas who was, more so, based out of LA at the time they came out on the Dr. Dre—this is during the NWA era.
F: (singing) funky
AG: Yeah, that’s exactly the album that was given to me. It was given to me by one of my friends who’s not here anymore, Bill Blast.
F: God bless
AG: And, he was also the manager of the Juice Crew. But it was funny that he gave me a Doc tape before anything else that was goin’ on.
F: This is the guy who’s managing the juice crew, but he gives you a Doc tape.
AG: Gives me a Doc tape, yeah.
F: That’s crazy
AG: And that was the spark right there. I was a full blown hip-hop fan after that. I never thought about rapping—
F: But you had a connection to the rap game already, right?
AG: Yeah
F: Directly
AG: Yeah
F: Because how did you know Bill Blast?
AG: Well, I could speak on it now because, you know, he’s moved on. But Bill Blast was probably the biggest drug dealer in East New York.
F: Oh yeah?
AG: Yeah, he had crack flowin’ on my block. And I was exposed to that, and he was a friend of the family. And, you know, I used to see him out there on the block, doin’ his thing, collecting money, shootin’ people—whatever. It was just, it was a crazy environment, man. But, at the end of the day, he was one of the most notorious hustler’s outta East New York, man.
F: But he was a good friend of yours?
AG: Yes, very good friend of mine and the family. He, basically, you know—
F: Did he mentor you in way?
AG: I mean, at times, at times. He never knew that I was—I guess during the final years of his life he got to see what I was doin’. You know, I was out there doin’ my music thing, and we were eventually supposed to connect. But, you know, that never happened.
F: So, last night you’re going line for line on “Road to Riches” by G Rap; and, bein’ the Corona man that I am, I was like, ‘yo, he’s from my hood’. But you then came and told me, you used to be around him and others. What was that like? He’s managing the Juice Crew, so how did he expose you to, let’s say, members of the Juice Crew and the rap game?
AG: Well, he would just bring them around the neighborhood. Sometimes he would shut down the block, throw block parties, and bring various members of the Juice Crew. Sometimes, just, other rappers that weren’t apart of the Juice Crew would come around. You know, at that time, during the late eighties goin’ into the early nineties, a lot of these MC’s—I hate to say this but—they were getting’ pressed by a lot of drug dealers.
F: Yup
AG: And, they felt it necessary to stay close to them, so that they wouldn’t have to—
F: Get extorted by the street dudes?
AG: Exactly, and they wouldn’t have to up any funds. So, you know, at any given day you might see either LL Cool J come through the block, you might see Milk D come through the block, Kool G. Rap and Polo, Rakim, MC Light—
F: Did you ever get to meet him?
AG: Yeah, yeah. Yes, definitely.
F: As a kid?
AG: I got to meet all of ‘em, man. You know, some of ‘em I got to sit and speak with, and some of ‘em was just the head nod—‘wassup, shorty,’ and keep it movin’. I was just a kid, so, you know, it was more of a ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ thing.
F: What, if you don’t mind me asking, what did Bill Blast pass from?
AG: He was murdered.
F: He was murdered.
AG: Yeah.
F: Did that teach you anything about the drug game—something you didn’t know? Or about the drug game and the rap game?
AG: There’s definitely a connection there. I mean, if you ask nine out of ten rappers what they used to do before they started rappin’, then they were probably—
F: How many actually did it though?
AG: They were probably sellin’ crack. I mean, how many actually did it?
F: Yeah, as opposed to—
AG: I know a lot of people are lyin’, so, you know, but, I think a lot of them did do it. Maybe not so much the rappers that come out today, but during our era—the Biggie’s, the Wu Tang’s, the Sean Carter’s—these dude’s were definitely out in the streets, man, hustlin’. (9:09)
F: So you have this connection to the rap game, indirectly, through Bill Blast, right?
AG: Yes
AG: I started rapping about, I wanna say, fourteen/fifteen years ago. It was something I always loved, man. I used to listen to rap music—I was a big, big fan of rap music for years. It’s funny, me being from the East Coast, my first real exposure to hip-hop was a Doc tape that was given to me. The Doc is an MC from Texas who was, more so, based out of LA at the time they came out on the Dr. Dre—this is during the NWA era.
F: (singing) funky
AG: Yeah, that’s exactly the album that was given to me. It was given to me by one of my friends who’s not here anymore, Bill Blast.
F: God bless
AG: And, he was also the manager of the Juice Crew. But it was funny that he gave me a Doc tape before anything else that was goin’ on.
F: This is the guy who’s managing the juice crew, but he gives you a Doc tape.
AG: Gives me a Doc tape, yeah.
F: That’s crazy
AG: And that was the spark right there. I was a full blown hip-hop fan after that. I never thought about rapping—
F: But you had a connection to the rap game already, right?
AG: Yeah
F: Directly
AG: Yeah
F: Because how did you know Bill Blast?
AG: Well, I could speak on it now because, you know, he’s moved on. But Bill Blast was probably the biggest drug dealer in East New York.
F: Oh yeah?
AG: Yeah, he had crack flowin’ on my block. And I was exposed to that, and he was a friend of the family. And, you know, I used to see him out there on the block, doin’ his thing, collecting money, shootin’ people—whatever. It was just, it was a crazy environment, man. But, at the end of the day, he was one of the most notorious hustler’s outta East New York, man.
F: But he was a good friend of yours?
AG: Yes, very good friend of mine and the family. He, basically, you know—
F: Did he mentor you in way?
AG: I mean, at times, at times. He never knew that I was—I guess during the final years of his life he got to see what I was doin’. You know, I was out there doin’ my music thing, and we were eventually supposed to connect. But, you know, that never happened.
F: So, last night you’re going line for line on “Road to Riches” by G Rap; and, bein’ the Corona man that I am, I was like, ‘yo, he’s from my hood’. But you then came and told me, you used to be around him and others. What was that like? He’s managing the Juice Crew, so how did he expose you to, let’s say, members of the Juice Crew and the rap game?
AG: Well, he would just bring them around the neighborhood. Sometimes he would shut down the block, throw block parties, and bring various members of the Juice Crew. Sometimes, just, other rappers that weren’t apart of the Juice Crew would come around. You know, at that time, during the late eighties goin’ into the early nineties, a lot of these MC’s—I hate to say this but—they were getting’ pressed by a lot of drug dealers.
F: Yup
AG: And, they felt it necessary to stay close to them, so that they wouldn’t have to—
F: Get extorted by the street dudes?
AG: Exactly, and they wouldn’t have to up any funds. So, you know, at any given day you might see either LL Cool J come through the block, you might see Milk D come through the block, Kool G. Rap and Polo, Rakim, MC Light—
F: Did you ever get to meet him?
AG: Yeah, yeah. Yes, definitely.
F: As a kid?
AG: I got to meet all of ‘em, man. You know, some of ‘em I got to sit and speak with, and some of ‘em was just the head nod—‘wassup, shorty,’ and keep it movin’. I was just a kid, so, you know, it was more of a ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ thing.
F: What, if you don’t mind me asking, what did Bill Blast pass from?
AG: He was murdered.
F: He was murdered.
AG: Yeah.
F: Did that teach you anything about the drug game—something you didn’t know? Or about the drug game and the rap game?
AG: There’s definitely a connection there. I mean, if you ask nine out of ten rappers what they used to do before they started rappin’, then they were probably—
F: How many actually did it though?
AG: They were probably sellin’ crack. I mean, how many actually did it?
F: Yeah, as opposed to—
AG: I know a lot of people are lyin’, so, you know, but, I think a lot of them did do it. Maybe not so much the rappers that come out today, but during our era—the Biggie’s, the Wu Tang’s, the Sean Carter’s—these dude’s were definitely out in the streets, man, hustlin’. (9:09)
F: So you have this connection to the rap game, indirectly, through Bill Blast, right?
AG: Yes
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I heard that this picture has a shot of Eric B & Rakim with Alpo and Richard "Fritz" Simmons and some other guys. If some one has a clearer shot of this photo could they post it up. I could be wrong
shout out to Albeesquare87 for his treasure trove of rare pictures.
Fort Greene nikkas. Jamel, 50 Cent, Little Corky in the middle
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Whoever typed this is right about almost everything, except Rakim himself said that was in fact Kool G Rap.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
Let me get my Rhyme King on...
One of the main reasons why I think Ra is the Greatest EMCEE...he is the best at internal rhyming and using poetic devices in general.
The internal rhymes within these
I'm pushing his eyeballs way to the back of his head
So he can see what he's getting into
A part of the mind that he never been through
A journey is coming cause ya getting sent to
A place harder to find but it's all in the mental
That unorthodox style Ra use from 86-92
