Hip Hop icon Big Daddy Kane took to a recent interview to think back in to the beginning years of not only his Hip Hop career, but others including Hov, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and Wu-Tang. Check out his full response below!
“At that point in time, we were trying to shop Jay Z to get him a deal,” Kane says in an interview with TheRealHip-Hop. “He was an artist I was working with at the time. With Ol’ Dirty [Bastard], me and Wu-Tang [Clan] did a show together at Newark Symphony Hall and after the show I told my people, ‘I wanna meet that Ol’ Dirty Bastard dude and the little kid.’ I went to their dressing room and they came to a party in Queens with me and hung out that night. Ever since, we were cool. Ol’ Dirty used to come out to Queens and spend the night at my crib a whole lot. Shyheim, I took him on the road with me on the Budweiser Superfest. He was like 15 years old, too young to be on a tour sponsored by a beer company [laughs].”
Big Daddy Kane also touched base on what credibility and notoriety really means to him. Above making the top lists of Rolling Stone Or The Source throughout his career, Big Daddy Kane says its the overall influence he has on a fan that serves as the ultimate appreciation of his legacy:
“But you know when somebody on the street says, ‘You’re the reason I started rapping,’ or ‘I always thought you was the dopest emcee,’ or ‘Yo, you know you Top 3,’ and then they say something like me, KRS[-One], and Rakim or Me, Biggie [The Notorious B.I.G.], and [Kool] G Rap, that’s the stuff that I love to hear. That’s what means something to me.”
