Long Live the Kane (1988)

01 Long Live the Kane Lyrics Sample
02 Raw (Remix) Lyrics
03 Set it Off Lyrics Sample
04 The Day You're Mine Lyrics Sample
05 On the Bugged Tip (f. Scoob Lover) Lyrics Sample
06 Ain't No Half-Steppin' Lyrics Sample
07 I'll Take You There Lyrics Sample
08 Just Rhymin' with Biz (f. Biz Markie) Lyrics Sample
09 Mister Cee's Master Plan Lyrics Sample
10 Word to the Mother (Land) Lyrics Sample

Even though he spends a good 90% of the album boasting about his skills and abilities on the microphone, and cutting those of other MCs, Big Daddy Kane consistently proves himself a thrilling artist on his debut album, Long Live the Kane, one of the most appealing creations from the original new school of rap. This debut captures the Big Daddy Kane who rocked the house at hip-hop clubs and verbally cut up any and all comers in the late '80s with his articulate precision and locomotive power — the Big Daddy Kane who became an underground legend, the Big Daddy Kane who had the sheer verbal facility and razor-clean dexterity to ambush any MC and exhilarate anyone who witnessed or heard him perform. There are plenty of legitimate early hip-hop classics, none of which have lost an ounce of their power, and all of which serve as reminders of a time and era when hip-hop felt immediate, exciting, fresh, and a little bit dangerous (in the figurative, rather than literal, sense), and when hip-hop spawned commercial tastes of the moment rather than surrendering to them. Although his next album would be nearly the artistic equal of the debut — and, in many ways, even bettered it — Big Daddy Kane would never sound as compelling or as fresh as on this first effort.

Audio CD: (October 25, 1990)
Original Release Date: June 21, 1988
Label: Warner Brothers (Cold Chillin')
Time: 46:40
Source Rating: 5 Mics
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Music: #40,562

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