The Return Of The Legends: Rakim, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD
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Rakim is considered a transformative figure in hip hop for raising the bar for MC technique higher than it had ever been.[2] Rakim helped to pioneer the use of internal rhymes and multisyllabic rhymes, and he was among the first to demonstrate the possibilities of sitting down to write intricately crafted lyrics packed with clever word choices and metaphors rather than the more improvisational styles and simpler rhyme patterns that predominated before him.[2] Rakim is also credited with creating the overall shift from the more simplistic old school flows to more complex flows.[3] Rapper Kool Moe Dee explained that before Rakim, the term 'flow' wasn't widely used – "Rakim is basically the inventor of flow. We were not even using the word flow until Rakim came along. It was called rhyming, it was called cadence, but it wasn't called flow. Rakim created flow. |
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MC Lyte knows how to be first. In 1988, she became Hiphop’s first woman artist to release a solo album Lyte As A Rock, one of Hiphop’s earliest and most significant albums. She was the first Hiphop artist to perform at Carnegie Hall, the first woman Hiphop Artist to have a gold single and a solo Grammy nomination. She is also the first woman to have been inducted into the VH- 1’s Hiphop Honors (2006) and the first woman to receive BET’s "I Am Hip Hop" Icon Lifetime Achievement Award. (2013). She was one of early Hiphop’s most successful recording artists and remains an important figure in its history. She continues to record, perform, and dj and serves as a model and reminder that a woman emcee doesn’t always have to show her body in order to tell her story.
Big Daddy Kane, is an American rapper who began his career in 1986 as a member of the Juice Crew. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and skilled MCs in hip hop. Rolling Stone ranked his song "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" number 25 on its list of The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time, calling him "a master wordsmith of rap's late-golden
age and a huge influence on a generation of MCs"
Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith are EPMD. Formed during the late ’80s, the duo are highly regarded as one of the early pioneers of rap sampling. Funk fueled with deep bass backdrops, their raw and uncut tales of sexual exploits and dissing sucker MC’s are the part basis of why they’re often referred to as underground heroes. Active 26 years, two breakups and two
separating solo careers couldn’t stop Erick and Parrish making dollars