Big Daddy Kane On Shopping Jay-Z To Labels and Getting Rejected: "They Didn't Like His Flow & Image" The Art Of Dialogue

[Juggalo Fred]

actually it was Jaz O's flow. After Jaz O, you had Kane, LL, and others starting biting Jaz's style. Das Efx and the Fushnickens came years after Jaz debut. Jaz slowed up his flow and then Jay followed.

I thought LL was copying Mike D and the LA Posses flow

 

[get these nets]

Jay Z before and after Dead Presidents might as well be 2 different artists.

Closest comparison would be Chris Rock before and after Bring the Pain.

 

[Metal Face]

Someone didn't give him a style to run with yet

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I thought LL was copying Mike D and the LA Posses flow

he was, but by 1992, LL and Kane would have songs with the "iggity iggity" flow . Kane was on "feels like another one" with Pattie Labelle and "nuff respect" from the Juice soundtrack using Jaz's flow when I had never heard them rap like that before. The thing is jaz didn't rhyme like that for every song, just here and there. That wasn't his full time style, but by the d&d project in 95, he changed to the style what we know Jay Z to have now



now, peep LL's last verse on this Keith Sweat remix in 1992


here is kane from the Juice soundtrack


here is Kane with pattie labelle in 1991 doing his Jaz impersonation

 

[DontEemTry]

he was, but by 1992, LL and Kane would have songs with the "iggity iggity" flow . Kane was on "feels like another one" with Pattie Labelle and "nuff respect" from the Juice soundtrack using Jaz's flow when I had never heard them rap like that before. The thing is jaz didn't rhyme like that for every song, just here and there. That wasn't his full time style, but by the d&d project in 95, he changed to the style what we know Jay Z to have now



now, peep LL's last verse on this Keith Sweat remix in 1992


here is kane from the Juice soundtrack


here is Kane with pattie labelle in 1991 doing his Jaz impersonation

You know your hip-hop history

 

[Bolzmark]

Arguably the best thing to EVER happen to Jay-Z was him getting rejected by all those labels early on. If he gets signed in the late 80's or early 90's I don't see him even coming close to where he is at today.

 

[Supa]

"You been in it 10, I been in it 5"

Jay low-key dissed himself in that line. He was so embarrassed by his early failures he tried to act like they didn't exist. It took him a long time to get going.