Yeen gotta take me or
@The Ruler 09 word for it... it's alot of rappers who most folks would consider "greats" in the industry that rate Rino extremely high and among the elite of the elites.
Face, Bun B, Canibus, Z-Ro, Killer Mike just to name a few...
Bun-B:
"I was barely a B.G. in the game when this man got on the mic, and this is one of the brothers that inspired me to do what i do today... in my humble opinion, the greatest battle rapper ever... (K-Rino) is my O.G."... @ 10:30
Scarface on K-Rino's lyrical prowess:
DX: You gonna have Eminem put some verses to them beats?
Scarface: Hell nah! [Laughs] I’m not fin to go in there fukkin’ with that white boy, man. [Laughs]
DX: You’re not gonna make the
“Renegade”
mistake.
Scarface: Hell nah! What the fukk you mean, go in there fukkin’ with him, for what? [Laughs] But I guess that’s how I feel about –
I guess that’s how a lot of rappers feel about this kid from out here named K-Rino.
DX: I heard you biggin’ him up again on
Dopeman Music, on like one of the skits.
Scarface: Yeah like, you just don’t –
It’s two people in music that you just don’t fukk with, there are two people in Rap that I just don’t fukk with: I’m not fukkin’ with Eminem, and I’m not fukkin’ with K-Rino. I invited K-Rino to do a verse on my album because a lot of people don’t wanna fukk with him, ‘cause he’s a dangerous muthafukka… I think he really took it light on me too.
DX: That’s saying something, that’s a hell of an endorsement to say that he’s got you when it comes to the H-Town hierarchy.
Scarface: Man, that muthafukka is the truth.
DX: I don’t know why it never happened for him…
Scarface: I think that it had a lot to do with…the way he felt about being affiliated with a major, or an indie-major… I don’t think he wanted to be a part of that fukkin’ machine. He didn’t wanna be…on that ship, that slave ship.
Scarface: For The First Time | Rappers Talk Hip Hop Beef & Old School Hip Hop | HipHop DX
Z-Ro on his influences in rap:
"my only influence in rap is a man by the name of K-Rino... the hardest nikka in rap PERIOD"...
@0:20
Canibus:
"K-Rino made me write" @ 0:53 in the above video