Reminds me of a couple of relevant anecdotes from Ed, from
the oral history of MTV:.
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Finally we shoot the segment, and Mike says, “I’m a Brooklyn guy, I’ve always had this lisp, when I was young everybody laughed at me.” And I go, “We got more Yo! MTV Raps coming up. Mike Tyson is talking this Brooklyn crap. Let me tell you, I’m from Queens, and there ain’t never no punk had nothing from no dude from Queens.” And Mike runs up behind me and hits me in the rib cage. All the air just left my body. And Mike stands over me and says, “Oh, Ed Lover is gonna sue me now.” That’s the first time he punched me. It wouldn’t be the last time."
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We did a Big Daddy Kane day, played five of his videos, and at the end of the show I started spitting some of his rhymes. And I was like, “Kane, you know you stole them rhymes from me, you old flat-top-wearing sucker ass.” It was a joke, but his guys took it seriously. So later I’m at Queen Latifah’s birthday party and these guys come threaten me. “We’re gonna fukk you up.” One of them had a straight razor. Ice-T protected me and got me to my car safely. I knew where they were from. That night we strapped up, me and Live Squad, the dudes Tupac used to run with. We went out to Brooklyn and chased them nikkas down the block shooting at them. I believe somebody got hit, but it didn’t come from my gun. That’s all I’m gonna say."
I begin to discern a pattern here.
