Who remembers when KRS and Puffy collabed for the Step Into A World remix?

[Threnody]

I thought it was a nice blend of 'real' and pop-hop one of the few songs puff did that I actually liked at the time.

 

[AMcV'88]

this must've hurt a dude like Jeru at the time.. going in on Bad Boy on Wrath Of Math etc and then to see a legend and most likely one of his favorites do a joint with Puff.

 

[patscorpio]

i was indifferent to it..krs 1 had fallen off my radar by then....nikkas were trying to get that crossover paper with puff (was not a fan of the shiny suit era though)..that album that shyt was on ended up going gold...his only gold album

 

[Newark88]

Never got the hate for the remix. It was a nice commercial track. I'll admit, when I first heard about this collaboration coming into fruition back then, I didn't know how KRS or Puff's style was going to gel but it turned out good. Also, you can't go wrong with a Nobody Beats The Biz sample. Plus let's keep it 100, from 94-97 Bad Boy was making great club music. I know towards the end of its reign, the music got a lil bit too overly commercial and cheesy. I'll give you that. But you can't deny the classics Puff and Bad Boy was putting out in its hey day.

 

[Peak]

Boy were the underground purists But this shyt tho

Krs One ft Puff Daddy - Step into a world(REMIX) - YouTube

If I remember correctly this was the first song Puff had done after Biggie died. Came out about two weeks or so after his death. I was surprised.

 

[aRoMaN21]

this remix is a perfect example of this fukking attention whore's ways.
puffy cant leave a classic alone. smh.
he has to be yapping his gums on it, fukkin up the original idea and putting the spotlight on him.
its sad.
so many records were fukked in the ass by him. he loved raping its potential away with his voice.
stole the glimmer it shoulda had
and left the end result a half ass fukkery of an end product with him on it.

 

[DANJ!]

this remix is a perfect example of this fukking attention whore's ways.
puffy cant leave a classic alone. smh. KRS-One "Step Into A World (Rapture's Delight)" - YouTube
he has to be yapping his gums on it, fukkin up the original idea and putting the spotlight on him.
its sad.
so many records were fukked in the ass by him. he loved raping its potential away with his voice.
stole the glimmer it shoulda had
and left the end result a half ass fukkery of an end product with him on it.

Like KRS was sittin' there kicking and screaming "NOOOOO!"

KRS made a conscious decision to do this remix, and per his own explanation to prove a point. The same stations that wouldn't play his other stuff at the time played that joint in a heartbeat, strictly off the Bad Boy connection.

And the remix actually wasn't bad... I remember hearing it on Rap Attack on 92Q in B-More and when they announced it, I was like Cause I didn't make that connection either, but it was dope.

Also, people forget for all the "he's not hip-hop" shyt he got from the "purists", Puff has/had good relationships with a lot of their Golden Age favorites. He was always cool with KRS, was a big fan of Rakim, got shouted out on records by EPMD and Brand Nubian back in the early '90s...

 

[Shammago]

I Got Next was KRS' highes selling album.

I am one of those hip hop purist that was like WTF when I heard about this unlikely collabo especially being how KRS was always speaking out against commercial hip hop where puffy was the symbol of that during that time.

But surpringly this was a decent track. Not sure if it increased krs fan base but still this could have really hurt blast master's career.

 

[Gotright]

who remember when nelly ripped krs 1 on roc the mic remix

 

[Newark88]

Like KRS was sittin' there kicking and screaming "NOOOOO!"

KRS made a conscious decision to do this remix, and per his own explanation to prove a point. The same stations that wouldn't play his other stuff at the time played that joint in a heartbeat, strictly off the Bad Boy connection.

And the remix actually wasn't bad... I remember hearing it on Rap Attack on 92Q in B-More and when they announced it, I was like Cause I didn't make that connection either, but it was dope.

Also, people forget for all the "he's not hip-hop" shyt he got from the "purists", Puff has/had good relationships with a lot of their Golden Age favorites. He was always cool with KRS, was a big fan of Rakim, got shouted out on records by EPMD and Brand Nubian back in the early '90s...

Basically. Say what you want about Puff but he definitely knows his Hip Hop since he was around and rubbed shoulders with the artists apart of the so called "Golden Era". Plus I remember back in 1991/92 when Puff (who was at Uptown at the time producing for Jodeci, Father MC, and Mary J) use to host parties every weekend called "Daddys House" at the Red Zone with Jessica Rosenblum (who's like the Michael Jordan of Hip Hop club promoters) being the promoter and Funkmaster Flex (who was on the come up at the time getting his name known in the clubs) being the DJ. And although the "Shiny Suit" period was overly commercial, it was only a small part of Bad Boys reign in the grand scheme of things. The Shiny Suit era was basically from 97 to 98, when DMX came and changed the whole landscape. Years prior (94-96) they were making the best fusion between R&B and Hip Hop at the time with the Hitmen R&B remixes (which basically was taking a page out of the blends Ron G was doing on his mixtapes back then) and Biggie appealing to both the nikkas and bytches. Bad Boy was making the best commercial Hip Hop in the mid 90's period. And to shyt on that is just being a hater.

 

[hustlemania]

i never had a problem with the track.. i was listening to all kinds of hip-hop back then.. so was a good bit of people who wanna front..

 

[aRoMaN21]

Like KRS was sittin' there kicking and screaming "NOOOOO!"

KRS made a conscious decision to do this remix, and per his own explanation to prove a point. The same stations that wouldn't play his other stuff at the time played that joint in a heartbeat, strictly off the Bad Boy connection.

And the remix actually wasn't bad... I remember hearing it on Rap Attack on 92Q in B-More and when they announced it, I was like Cause I didn't make that connection either, but it was dope.

Also, people forget for all the "he's not hip-hop" shyt he got from the "purists", Puff has/had good relationships with a lot of their Golden Age favorites. He was always cool with KRS, was a big fan of Rakim, got shouted out on records by EPMD and Brand Nubian back in the early '90s...

so basically if puffy said "sukk my dikk and ill get you a hit" youd do it??
Christina Aguilera did it. I wasnt under the impression KRS did this too. smh

you know more than me... KRS allowed that shyt?, im floored.

but how can you bring up the puffy from the early 90's and compare it to the puffy that existed btwn the years of 95- now.
cmon. The devil visited puffy in 95. Since then that muthafukka beens the anakin of the rap game.

 

[Danie84]

I always prefer the og version

This was the period was inserting himself on every record

 

[prophecypro]

With more wildcats than rick pitino I mean yo...

 

[daze23]

the OG was way better and so was this: