Y'all are really dating Cassidy with the wrong era. He did birth the style of all of these battle rapper that you see now. While Lord Finesse is probably the architect, Big L birthed it, Cassidy took it to a new level, with a mixture of Canibus vocab/aggressiveness and Big L's wittiness. Cass was signed in like '98-99, and was already buzzing around the Philly tri-state area since '97 and doing local songs that got some spins..
Hell, his early Ruff Ryders days he was hella tame compared to what he has been known for. The Freeway battle was really most of y'all exposure to his style. There's about 300 hours of footage of Cassidy in high school, just spittin in cyphers with n!ggas literally saying "yo...no one better rhyme after this kid". Eventually it's going to come out.
Hell, his early Ruff Ryders days he was hella tame compared to what he has been known for. The Freeway battle was really most of y'all exposure to his style. There's about 300 hours of footage of Cassidy in high school, just spittin in cyphers with n!ggas literally saying "yo...no one better rhyme after this kid". Eventually it's going to come out.
he wasn't even the first of his generation, fab was before him
? Cassidy did have a spin on it and all the battle scene I will say he is MOST of these nikkas daddys with them takin that aggressive Philly style delivery mixed with the punchlines....but on the rap scene he crazy if he think he influenced more nikkas than Fab far as the constant bar after bar of punchlines shyt
....how can you say all them bars full of pop references that go like "I blah blah blah like blah blah blah" was Fab at his intellectual peak
?You gotta love the subtle shyt vs bar after bar of obvious punchlines you see coming from a mile away
....and Fab is the goat punchline rapper fukk the other shyt,nobody been this good for this long and switched they style up to give you the wordplay in a different way
