Big Daddy Kane

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One of the greatest artistic products to derive from the African American culture is its music. And of that music, no category is as distinct as hip-hop, with its ability to raise awareness by telling stories of social injustice and oppression, but also of heritage and pride...

The All Star Music Experience will take place Feb. 14 – Feb. 16, during All Star weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana. The unprecedented three-day event will honor Trina, Twista and Big Daddy Kane with Lifetime Achievement Awards and feature a star-studded panel of multi-platinum producers and celebrity DJs. The ...

Houston hip-hop legend Scarface told XXL last week that hip-hop has lost its soul, claiming that in this day and age, lyrics are being dumbed down because everyone is so focused on turning up. “I feel like our music was dumbed down,” the Houston legend said in a phone interview, echoing a number of his peers who have vocalized similar frustrations recently. “I grew up listening...

It's a good time to be a Busta Rhymes fan. Earlier in the month, the 41-year-old rapper made waves by releasing "Thank You," an incendiary new track with frequent collaborator Q-Tip. He's built on the excitement by announcing a collaborative mixtape with Tip due out in December and by stopping by A Tribe Called Quest's reunion performance during the Yeezus tour stop in Brooklyn... Read M

They say that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but often the human instinct to make snap judgments overcomes that sentiment. We all do it, and we can't help it. As human beings, we are psychologically inclined to judge what we see at face value regardless of our better inclinations to do otherwise. That is ...

After congress failed to reach a compromise on the budget last night, the U.S. federal government officially was shut down at midnight on October 1. The GOP-controlled House Of Representatives continued to demand changes in Obamacare, seeking to defund the new healthcare initiative as the price of funding standard federal activities which the Democratically-controlled Senate sees as a non-starter

Big Daddy Kane came on The Combat Jack Show to discuss a number of topics. He gives his thoughts about the about the Mr. Cee situation. Kane also discusses Long Live The Kane, Doug E Fresh tutelage and how he taught him how to rock the crowd, The Juice Crew, KRS-One, Madonna and plus a number of other topics. Thi...

Rappers have a strange track record of taking their clothes off. And we're not talking ripping your shirt off in the moment during a concert. Over the years, rappers have found themselves appearing in sex tapes, nude spreads and sexting incidents gone wrong...

September 13, 1996 is a day that will forever be immortalized in hip-hop history as the day a legend left us. Tupac Shakur was 25 years old at the time of his death 17 years ago, leaving behind a legacy as rich in lyricism as it was in attitude, a man who helped define a sound and who led a movement, who is widely considered one of the best rappers of all time and one of the most engaging personal

Big Daddy Kane and Mister Cee have a history dating back to their high school days at Sarah J. Hale High School, when the two would collaborate on the streets of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Later, Cee would work on many of Kane's early records, contributing scratches to some of the seminal hits on Kane's classic 1988 debut Long Live The Kane and continuing to work together over the

After a lengthy and storied career in rap music, one of hip-hop's most venerable and respected DJs, Mister Cee, abruptly resigned from his long-time position at New York's Hot 97 radio station today. The Finisher is retiring after a nearly 20-year tenure with the radio station in the wake of today's allegations...