Happy Birthday, Kool G Rap!

 •  XXL Magazine  •  by mlelinwalla  •  3 Comments

Kool G Rap, one of hip-hop’s most influential pioneers, turns 44 today. The exceptional storyteller hit the rap scene during the late 1980’s as part of the legendary Juice Crew.

“Happy Bornday to the Q GodFather Mic Bomber Kool G Rap !!” Large Professor tweeted around 6 a.m. today (July 20).

Alongside partner DJ Polo, G Rap left an irrefutable imprint on hip-hop by dropping multiple classic efforts, such as Road to the Riches, Wanted: Dead or Alive and Live and Let Die. The Queens MC also had a solo career, which he embarked on in 1995 with the revered album 4,5,6.

“Yeah, hearing me rap is like hearing G Rap in his prime,” Jay-Z spit on Encore of his 2003 LP The Black Album.

Hova and many others have paid homage to the lisp wordsmith over the years and continue to.

Happy Birthday to Kool G Rap ! —XXL Staff

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  • tommy

    wow you are so ignorant. You’re saying people from the ghetto can’t get an academic scholarship, and the only way blacks can achieve is if they have “white tendencies”? How the hell do you think people like Ben Carson went to schools like Yale and became freaking neurosurgeons and the head of the fucking neuro dept. at Johns Hopkins? Ben Carson was underprivileged, and struggled academically as a child. Everything you wrote makes you sound like the uneducated person. I honestly can’t believe you wrote this bullshit that underprivileged are illiterate and can’t succeed. Not only did J. Cole get an academic scholarship but he graduated magna cum laude as well. And just because you went to a school thats 3% black doesn’t mean shit. it doesn’t make you an expert on all inner-city blacks in America nor a fucking sociologist. like dude who the fuck are you to say anything??

  • Azup

    How crazy would a colab be with Nas, Jay-Z, and Busta Rhymes I’ve been dreaming for that moment for years. But,” Life is Good” is an awesome album, can’t wait to hear Busta’s “Year of the Dragon” album.

  • SDK

    GOAT