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November 26, 1998

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November 26, 1998

Big Daddy Kane Proves He Can Still Bust a Rhyme

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November 25, 1998

Daddy's Home

Big Daddy Kane proves he can still bust a rhyme ten years after
August 21, 1998

Rap Masters Step Up To Bat

Hip-Hop World Series Will Benefit Local Charities

Recordings and Reviews

Taste of Chocolate

At first, 'Taste of Chocolate' – with its stripped-down beats, fleeting keyboard scratches and funny, boasting rhymes – sounds like Big Daddy Kane's effort to return to the sound of really early rap records. There's no complicated sampling, no post-Public Enemy screech or noise.

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1990 RS: 4of 5 Stars

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Biography

With his suave good looks and hard, smooth vocal delivery, Big Daddy Kane became rap's first niche-marketed sex symbol. In addition to his own albums, videos, and performances, he has written hits for other artists and posed nude in Playgirl magazine (June 1991) and for Madonna's 1992 book, Sex. He has been described as the Barry White of rap.

Kane grew up in the tough Bedford-Stuyvesant...

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