Big Daddy Kane is frequently considered one of the best MCs of all time. His debut album, Long Live The Kane,<\/i> is a hip-hop classic and displays Kane\u2019s unbelievable gift of gab. <\/p>\n
1988 was the first golden-year of hip-hop (1994 being the other), a fantasy year that saw albums like It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, By All Means Necessary, Strictly Business, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, Straight Out the Jungle, Straight Outta Compton <\/i>and Critical Beatdown<\/i>. Not that this is important, but considering how depressing hip-hop in 2006 has been, I thought I would reflect.<\/p>\n
Long Live The Kane<\/i> is not the best album to come out in 1988 but it is still a revolutionary piece of work. Big Daddy Kane exhibits his lyrical prowess over an album entirely produced by the legendary Marley Marl. The album starts off with three absolutely rambunctious tracks: \u201cLong Live The Kane,\u201d \u201cRaw (Remix)\u201d and \u201cSet It Off,\u201d which showcase Kane\u2019s trademark punch lines and metaphors that set fire to his microphone.<\/p>\n
Things slow down a bit with \u201cThe Day You\u2019re Mine,\u201d which is the birthplace of the smooth-talking pimp Kane later perfected. \u201cAin\u2019t No Half Steppin\u2019\u201d is a landmark and alone is evidence of why Big Daddy Kane is considered one of the greatest; the song contains a laid-back groove courtesy of Marley Marl that Kane obliterates by changing his rap style to a nonchalant cadence instead of the laid-back lyrical spitfire he usually is.<\/p>\n
Not every song is killer, but the majority of them are. This album is a landmark for east coast MCs and has influenced people like Jay-Z and Nas, and a couple of minor blemishes aside, this is a must-own for all hip-hop heads, especially those who crave the good old days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7859],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-40053","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-big-daddy-kane","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40053"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40053"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}