Big Daddy Kane: “KRS-One was the Battle I Really Wanted”

I would have put my money on KRS One.

I thought KRS was better in that era (87-91), but Kane stopped at the right time while KRS kept putting out records past his prime.

KRS??? Better than Kane?? are you involved with the hip-hop community or not??

Busta Carmichael wrote: »

Y'all trippin

Kane would've WASHED KRS

KRS won the juice crew battle by Stealing a Marley marl beat and using a jafaican accent.

Song wasn't even hot. Name me one line that was etherous in the bridge is over.

And that's basically his claim to fame.

Nonsense.

When I was in high school, The Bridge Is Over was one of the songs that a DJ would play to get everybody on the dance floor. It was the type of song that the DJ would drop and the whole crowd would say, "hoooooooo".

Anyway, you asked for an etherous line;

1. I finally figured it out Magic's mouth is used for suckin/Roxanne Shante is only good for steady ?

2. Manhattan keeps on makin it/Brooklyn keeps on taking it/Bronx keeps creating it and Queens keeps on faking it.

3. Bronx created Hip Hop/Queens will only get dropped

They are both still active. It's not too late to give the fans a friendly battle. It wouldn't have the same impact as it would of in the 80's but it would draw a lot of interest today.

Really though Krs went at the weak targets in the Juice Crew.. (Shan, Marly Marl, Roxanne Shante). KRS didn't want with Masta Ace, Craig G, Kane or G Rap.

5 Grand wrote: »

nujerz84 wrote: »

Really though Krs went at the weak targets in the Juice Crew.. (Shan, Marly Marl, Roxanne Shante). KRS didn't want with Masta Ace, Craig G, Kane or G Rap.

Not really, Shan was one of the top MCs of his era (85-87). He was one of the few rappers that had an album in 1987. Most rappers at that time might have a single, or two singles. But full length albums didn't start becoming the norm until around 1988.

G Rap might have given KRS some trouble on wax but I still think KRS was the #1 battle rapper of his era. Meaning, if they went on stage KRS would have served anybody in his prime, including Kane, Rakim and G Rap.

Compared to Kane, Ace, G Rap and Craig G.. Shan is still the weakest mc in the group. Even in KRS prime he not gonna serve all those mc like that like they are some scrubs. KRS knew what he was doing going after Shan, Marly and Roxanne.


Craig G is arguably the greatest off the dome batle rapper of all time (In the convo with Supernatural and Juice) he give KRS that work on stage.

Busta Carmichael wrote: »

MC shan >>>>>> KRS

Shan was'nt even the best out the Juice Crew

Here's a song by The Original Juice Crew (before Big Daddy Kane and Master Ace). It was around the same time as The Bridge Is Over

Kool G Rap
Craig G
Glamorous
MC Shan
Tragedy Khadafi/Intelligent Hoodlum
Roxanne Shante


^^^^ That was the Juice Crew in 1987. Out of all of them, MC Shan was the most popular and released an album right around that time. You might say that Craig G, Kool G Rap or Tragedy were better but they hadn't really done anything yet.

In 1986/87 the two most popular MCs in the Juice Crew were Shan and Shante

Juice Crew All Stars - Juice Crew All Stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk8gwpjvIL0

Here's a Marley Marl interview on NPR. Just to clarify a few things; There were two main Hip Hop radio shows in the late 80s in New York;

• 98.7 Kiss FM - Chuck Chillout on Friday Nights and Red Alert on Saturday Nights
  
• 107.5 WBLS - Mr Magic was the radio announcer and Marley Marl would mix the records on Friday and Saturday nights

Mr Magic was actually the first rap DJ in New York, he had a show back in 1979 before he moved to WBLS. So Mr Magic had a reputation and he used to diss people on the air. He used to diss Red Alert who was on the "other" radio station.