(If you are at all a Big Daddy Kane fan, seek this album out.
That album remains his last proper solo work, although Big Daddy Kane continues to tour and released an album with his live band as Las Supper in 2013. After holding on through the ’90s as popular rap styles changed, Kane released 1998’s Veteranz Day and then, for all intents and purposes, hung it up. His first two albums, 1988’s Long Live the Kane and ’89’s It’s a Big Daddy Thing are stone cold classics.
Coming up in hip-hop’s Golden Age, Brooklyn’s Big Daddy Kane was a lyricist with peerless flow, commanding the microphone with a blazing style that showed him as adept at rapping with exquisite speed and slowing it down for a late night beneath the sheets jam.
