Race Jones
gangster. grace. alchemy
In his 34-minute documentary Dope Or Dog Food: The Lyrical Genius Of Big Daddy Kane, JayQuan examines the inventive lyrics of some classics from the onetime Cold Chillin’/Warner Bros. Records star. Placing him at the top of the Rap food-chain, the doc’ points out that in the late ’80s, Kane was the most commercially successful of an elite class of MCs including Rakim, Kool G Rap, KRS-One. The stage-show has also been critical to Kane’s name and post holding strong. Even without albums, the Brooklyn, New Yorker tears down live shows into his fifties, evident in Chappelle’s Block Party, among anybody who’s seen the O.G. rock.
