The latest episode of the acclaimed I Received Questions collection options the Juice Crew’s Massive Daddy Kane and Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah reflecting on Hip-Hop tradition and their careers.
The streets have been asking for it, so it’s solely proper that as Hip-Hop is having fun with 50 years of life as a tradition, the pivotal interview collection I Received Questions makes its return with two of the best MCs in Hip-Hop—Massive Daddy Kane and Ghostface Killah.
The 2 artists sit throughout from one another in an opulent lounge setting, with Ghostface reminiscing on the primary time he ever heard Massive Daddy Kane rhyme whereas hustling within the tasks in his Stapleton neighborhood of Staten Island. “That’s what actually received me into Hip-Hop, and ink and placing the pen down,” he mentioned. For Massive Daddy Kane, he recounted his first time assembly Ghostface at their present in Newark, New Jersey, and the way they instantly received right into a cipher. “It was me, you, Scoob Lover, RZA, and Raekwon and Shyheim,” he mentioned. He even revealed how the enduring “The place Brooklyn At?” second from The Infamous B.I.G. happened at considered one of his exhibits.
As the 2 sip wine, Massive Daddy Kane reveals that he began as a DJ however a theft at his grandmother’s house pressured him to pivot to rhyming. “Dude that stole these turntables did me a giant favor ‘trigger I sucked at DJ’ing,” the legend mentioned with amusing. The dialog went deeper, as Ghostface revealed that performing his traditional monitor with Mary J. Blige from Ironman, “All That I Received Is You” is one which he’s reluctant to carry out. “It simply will get me unhappy. I don’t actually carry out that as a result of it brings me again to a spot the place we was going by it. That file brings ache,” he remarked.
The 2 artists additionally spoke concerning the relationships with different older and newer artists in rap, and the way they need to be perceived by the general public. “Now there’s a disconnect,” Massive Daddy Kane mentioned, “That’s what we have to deliver again so we are able to speak to the younger rappers of at this time and provides them the sport. The identical approach it was given to me. The identical approach it was given to you.”
Ghostface additionally spoke about how some rappers should be extra embracing of their followers by signing autographs and greeting them on the road. “I’m an MC first, however I’m grateful although, ‘trigger Kane we might’ve been someplace else,” mentioned Tony Starks.
Try the complete I Received Querys episode with Massive Daddy Kane and Ghostface Killah above.
