I GOT QUESTIONS w/ Big Daddy Kane & Ghostface Killah

two Parkers in New York so biggie calls and says he wants to come to the show I call Big and park up on stage crowd go crazy I never knew that was where they came from Big with the you know yeah yeah that was all that show I'm stage manag just standing there telling me let me know I got five minutes there was someone else in the cut you know waiting to go and it was Fat Joe you got a FL Joe yeah the FL Joe joint and that really hurt too cuz I mean it's like you know I want see everybody shine right right [Music] right ghost I got some [Music] questions hey yo Kan I got questions y'all [Music] recording hey yo the first time I heard you Lord I was in my projects you know we was hustling back then was it 87 888 mhm 87 bubbling 87 right bubbling I remember God bless the dad my man P soon as he heard that warm it up came we had boxers back then so he just over there like hit and rewind on that one song Those was my Glory Days that's what that really got me into hip hop and really started like inking putting the putting the the pin down when you came it was it was fresh one of my favorite joints from then was R aw terrorist you you know what I'm saying it was like yo the beat that's 87 it was a movement in the jcks that allam was like going crazy you know what I'm saying it's crazy to hear you say that because I think that time period it was a shift and a different movement you know when Rock Kim came KS came and then I came once again it it shifted back to being about the lyrics right and when I listen to woo stuff I can hear how important lyricism was to y'all very very important and I want to thank you for that because it's like yo the way we rhyme it's like that's where we get it from it always brings us back to that era right there do you remember when we first met I remember you meeting you in in North Carolina and I don't know if you remember cuz you was like yo yo you should do you should you told me I should do movies yeah I remember but we first met we had a show together at Newark Symphony Hall in Newark New Jersey and that was my first time seeing y'all Rock and then I came in y dress room to meet all of y'all and in a matter seconds we jumped into a cipher it was me you scoo blover rzza and rayquan right we jumped we jumped oh and um and um Shaheen cuz y'all had Shaheen with you when he had half is here braided and the other half in the app right right right sh yeah we all jumped into a cipher yeah that's crazy I don't know about you but I'm getting a little dry over here all right cool let's get it go on what made you fall in love with hip-hop first time I fell in love with hip-hop was 1977 my cousin Murdoch took me to a block party in Roosevelt projects and we saw uh Master D DJing people stopped dancing to watch him and I just thought that it was just a phenomenal scene and I was like I want to be a DJ you know so first yeah yeah yeah I was a DJ first you know yeah and then um you know somebody broke in my grandmother crib and stole my turntables and then that's when I started you know um now the dude that stole them turntables did me a big favor cuz I no cuz I sucked at DJ right right right yeah I fell in love with it I was living in West Brighton at this time on Staten Allen this the first time I seen like a DJ just hook up in front of the building and everybody was rocking but I couldn't go outside I'm looking from the window and I'm just seeing all these people down there by the time it was the Sugar Hill you know like nice 12 minute song it was you know it it just gradually just you know worked its way up by the time I got to like Junior High School that's when I started like really trying to pin my little RS down windmilling and all that and the rest is like history so I teamed up with the clan here's to both of us not coming out in the era where you had to make 12 minute songs [Music] right like torment wise man yeah do you have like any amazing memories it's a lot you know what I mean especially when dirt was here when dirt was here dirt let me tell you something dirt was the best Yo he's the best like you know my brother was he was just one of a kind he was unique for real but he used to just do things like on the road when I first met him I had like a Shamy and cheese hero right and I know this is a cousin though but I'm eating a hero and the [ __ ] just came walked up to me and was like yo can I get a piece of that you know what I mean so I'm looking at him like yo the [ __ ] this n ask me for you know what I mean piece of my sandwich and [ __ ] [ __ ] don't be doing [ __ ] like that but I gave it to him so it's like we became cool after that [ __ ] but being on the road with him I seen him like walk up the chicks right and he be like yo you know who I am and had the chick look at him and then just bust like me and Mariah he had the ill lines he ever cursed you out cursed me out yeah oh no no yo we was close he cursed me out one night oh yeah spending the night at the crib right he drunk his [ __ ] he asking me for the keys to my pathfinder so he could run to Harlem I'm like yo I'm not giving you the keys while you like this man right he follow me upstairs I'm trying to go in my bedroom to lock the door so I don't have to listen to this dude no more he holding the door I'm like yo asan man I'm not giving you the keys right he stepped back to say something right stumble down the stairs caught the banister with his foot before he could fall time and then said see I'm the Drunken Master at this [ __ ] God give me hey yo I can see him saying that cuz me and Ray used to be bunkys and you know what I mean they we have really solo wounds back then me and Ray ordered like 24 bottles of champagne like like 18 Salmons we ain't really know no better we got screamed oning like when the bill came it was some of the funnest days of my life like when we first was getting on tour doing all that [ __ ] traveling everywhere we was real tight like you know what I mean moving like family yeah like a family like it was strong we would like that as well you know one of one of my uh great tour moments is when we was on the bud wise are Superfest like uh me Patty Lael uh Levert BBD MC light but the last two shows they had me clothes and one was at the Garden mhm and at this time uh Tupac is in New York filming Above the Rim so biggie calls Mr C and says he wants to come to the show and then asks is it okay if he bring Tupac and I'm like you know yeah yeah yeah absolutely so you know when they get there you know it's like you know um they want to get on you know now I already got shahim with me cuz virgin paid for him to you know um and you know so he's coming out rhyming on stage with me and doing his song you know with on so we like let's have one of these moments man so um I call Big and park up on stage crowd go crazy I never knew that was where they came from yeah that's where that come from wow okay okay okay okay yeah then you know big with we Brooklyn at brookly Ma 11s you know yeah yeah that was all that show it was someone else in the cut you know waiting to go right but they um stage man is just standing there telling me let me know I Got 5 minutes you know and it was Fat Joe oh okay yeah like he was a a new artist at the time as well right but he was standing there you know waiting to go but they tell me I got five minutes and I still hadn't done warm it up or you no half stepping so I yeah so I had to like you know like tell them I I I I can't cuz D it was only giving me 5 minutes and that really hurt too cuz I mean it's like you know I want to see everybody shine I want to see everybody shine it was such an epic night so is that when Joe had FL Joe the FL Joe yeah the Jo joint 1993 wow so many things brothers did on T man we we just had fun man when I remember one time I I put that we was somewhere and I just put the I shouldn't have did it though like I put the fire stingle sh under me door me me and Ray he just came out he came out he had the afro that time it was Pure White afro was Pure White open the door he just open the door was like y'all play too much y'all play too much but he's he got that like you know that that Sleepy Eye [ __ ] but the head was mad white that's one thing we do though snap on each other like heavy I would have Lov to seen biz on your bus oh cuz you got to understand everybody make the same mistake they see Biz Fe te and think he's an easy win nah Biz I've seen Biz tear people apart right I seen Biz tear people apart and I mean like professional comedians right damn let me explain something to you I've never said this in public right I've never said this in public a lot of times people ask me what would you be doing if you um wasn't rapping right if you never became big daddy came I never ever thought about that until they closed the lid on that casket man like for about 10 seconds I saw my whole entire life I thought about how long i' had been rapping how how many demos I made everything I did to try to get on and it's like I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Biz right if he didn't discover me believe me teach me how to perform on stage and keep his word mhm you know because I mean when he got signed he could have just said y n just keep writing for me right he made sure that Cole Chillin signed me as well so I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him you know what I mean yeah yeah even before this music it was like yo you know we in the streets you know what I'm saying it's like yo i' would have probably been locked up probably been dead because I was doing a lot of stupid stuff I just kept rapping and you know what I mean found rizer know he had the equipment at his house Rez had a swag about but I seen something in them and um yeah and it just became on what it became like five or six years later there go into the routine 36 Chambers you don't know how it's going to go but was there a point where like one of the members had to come to you and say yo ghost stay focused this [ __ ] about to happen listen because even when I got on I was still you know hustling but then RZ found out cuz I was taking my money you know you buying bricks and all that so he like uh you can't mix pork with beef you can't do them both you got to leave one of them things one of these things alone and I just decided like yo you know what drop that and don't never touch it again never s that [ __ ] again like was over that's yeah actually sure with Biz uh my moment like that with him was um I got accepted to Deli college and I wasn't signed with cold chilling yet but you know he doing this I'm like yo I just got accepted to college man cuz this dude telling me I'm not down with the juice crew yet man noce I'm like you know and Biz and you know in his words you know said I'm not going to tell you not going to go to school go ahead but watch watch I'm telling you this [ __ ] going to happen right and I that was enough that was all I need to hear like yeah I'm going ride it out then brother I'mma ride it out yeah like I know that for catalog half stepping Smooth Operator be like the main two that people want to hear but for me set it off like it's like it's the type of thing where you know as soon as I start let V get B and when that right it's 88 all day it's 88 all day like I'm in a whole different era right there I don't that song just gives me motivation you know gives me energy know that's that joint that uplifts me right you know M and the crazy thing about it is like you know when I first did it in my mind I was doing um James Brown Sex Machine cuz I I just like how James go you know um we moving grooving doing it can I count it off can I count it off 1 2 3 4 y y so I was like I want to do something where I'm doing something in the intro before the beat drop but instead of talking I just did the the rhyme the let R get thing this Grove This Groove is what's next you know like and yeah it's it's that that's the thing that gives me energy you know I always try to do it early in the show cuz that's what give me energy no matter how I'm feeling I'm 19y old Kane right right that's dope What's um like one of your favorites from your catalog I never you to tell to be honest with you I never really thought about that and a lot of times people be like they want like wow I mean all I got as you and stuff like that that I did with Mary J blud it just bring me to a place like it just it just Mak me sad you know what I mean so I don't I don't I I don't never really perform that it just brings me back to like a you know when we was going through it three bedroom apartment roaches everywhere and all this other stuff like that it's like it's so ill because a lot of people be like yo that's my favorite record you ever did and I I went through that that's my childhood but that maybe tomorrow [ __ ] by The Jackson 5 made me just go back and just tell my childhood you know what I mean so even right now when I hear it it's like I'm saying like damn did I go too far did I did I express all my personal [ __ ] you know what I mean and when I did and I was all said and done with it it was like yo Brothers respected it but I never thought like which one is my my favorite record like I I but particular one has an emotional attachment yes because you never know because it'll just something will just hit me you know my mother's not here right now you know I mean and my brothers ain't here right now you know me because they had muscular distopy and all that so it's like it's like that record is pain even though for emotional reasons you may not like performing it mhm it touched so many others you know what I'm saying it ain't like it touched them like that beat banging it touched them what you saying right you know what I'm saying yeah and you said something else that's real interesting you said when you heard the maybe tomorrow joint it took you there and I'm sitting here I wonder why because I don't know if you remember in the Jackson 5 cartoon whenever it was a scene where they reflected that's what played maybe tomorrow right right right right I remember playing in there that's the song that always play maybe tomorrow yeah I don't even listen to my [ __ ] you know what I mean to be honest with you I do them in after mixing it and doing all that it might I don't I never just throw it on well listen yeah you don't have to listen to your [ __ ] right but I thank you for one right that's my [ __ ] oh one now is my you no no look at me that's my [ __ ] thank you you know what I'm saying thank you my brother I like when I listen to a song and say damn I wish I was on this yeah that's when it yeah that's my [ __ ] no I appreciate you for that that's my ghost song like yeah I love that [ __ ] man right no I appreciate that's a lot coming from you though it's love yeah bro it's hip hop I'm one of those artists where I don't want you to ever play my music and ignore me I don't want you to play my music just to dance to the beat just to sing the hook I want you to be like you know hey yo ghost man you heard that new Kane yo Kane said right right right you know what I'm saying right right right like all that's important to me you know from the MC side you know um I don't I don't know like how about with with you as an MC you do want your uh you want your music you know you want people to respect what you said now I'm going be honest with you you know a lot of times I might I might have missed a shot you know what I mean but um at the end end of the day I want to be recognized for my talent that's why if you ask around the people that know me I would never deny you of a autograph of a picture and I've seen rappers do that a lot you know what I mean but I will never do that like I said I'm an MC first you know just like how you said it but I'm grateful though because Kane we could have been somewhere else yeah could have been somewhere else and I don't I don't I don't know like it's it's like yo we got saved like hip-hop saved us like like Dam I think that a lot of people from our generation have to understand that where we at right now in music like myself you we are part of hipop culture when I say that I mean like we battled we had to go to different projects to battle people we got on the mic while a DJ cutting up a record for real from the cultural aspect but now hip-hop is officially a music genre it's a real music genre not only is it a real music genre it's the biggest selling genre someone can wake up just like they do in pop music someone can wake up one morning and say I want to make a rap song that's they don't have to come from and the sad part is the disconnect because when you came in the game I was there right when I came in the game Houdini douge fresh they was there right when they came in the game right you know Furious 5 Sugar Hill Gang was there you know what I'm saying when Eminem jiss came in the game Nas Jay-Z was there right right right right now there's a disconnect where the older generation don't connect with the younger generation that's what we need to bring back we can talk to the young rappers of today and give them the game the same way it was given to me the same way it was given to you right exactly the the the 50 year anniversary of hip-hop at Yankee Stadium you know mean when I saw the grace day DJ Hollywood everybody was in the building that was one of the greatest different ER yeah exactly and I'm looking at them through their joints looking back in time all those other you know I mean it was it was like it felt like a birthday for real felt like a real birthday like we've been here for like 30 years you could have been died out and burnt out and people just forget about you to still be here then to do it in Yankee Stadium on that stage amongst all the greats go on the soundcheck bring meam man and inspect the deck out and yo listen yeah that was a beautiful time beautiful beautiful yo I love you Kane you know what I mean yo thank you so much you know what I mean for real man thank you for everything black man n me if it wasn't for brothers like you brother I wouldn't even probably be here bro because like I said you inspired me you a stamp for me in our lives and I could I could vouch for that with My Wo brothers and all that so it's like yo I I I I thank you so much like you know what I mean you was well needed for me to make it where I'm at like right now that a lot brother you me you know how we do all day thank you million you know what I mean I remember meth getting real mad he used to get mad when we listen to Soul music mad like turn that [ __ ] off that's all y'all listen to not too long ago he just mentioned that [ __ ] we in the dresser room I remember when y used to play that [ __ ] I ain't like that [ __ ] I ain't like that [ __ ] like yo but we Soul babies man how you don't like it

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Published: Fri Apr 05 2024