peace y'all what's going on it's your boy James"Kraze"Billings also known as
Kraze the king of content and welcome to the very first episode of hip hop it
don't stop now what we're going to talk about today is the most influential
hip-hop battles of all time so what makes an MC battle tested is it his bars is
it his resilience is it is wit , is it his confidence
Emcees are mental warriors proving that hip-hop is a contact sport
now aggression is nothing new to the game so let's take a trip down memory
lane let me set the tone it's a Christmas celebration at the
world famous and legendary Harlem World nightclub the year is 1981 and the chief
rock busy bee is on the stage doing his one two. Working the crowd and getting a lot of crowd participation
if y'all notice it or not you know I heard a lot of shits you know busy bees
popping shit saying here take out any emcee and all give it to the man he know
how to rock the crowd well when it comes to having Rhymes no way he can fuck around
imma prove that right now
now this battle between Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee is noted as the first hip-hop to reach the masses
See there was no label Wars back then these legendary battles were
circulate through New York City through cassette tape and hood Folk law
Now even tho Busy Bee got the short end of the stick that night he didn't even have any
animosity he said and I quote I'm a Moe Dee's dick
that's not my words those of his now kool Moe Dee being no stranger to battle
rap he ended up battling LL Cool J
Iced T and MC Hammer Busy Bee also secured his time in history on July 3rd
at the same legendary club Harlem world where his crew the fantastic five battle the Cold Crush Brothers
the first wax attack that I'm familiar
with and that's ut'fo and Roxanne Shante
let me tell you and explain them all to you I'm not just dude but the name of a
hat that some of you guys may be familiar with Roxanne Shaw take from XM
radio if you have it she's on the rock the bells show along with my man Cool V
now most people say Roxanne shante won that UTFO a full battle
but Roxanne Shante was part of a bigger outfit of emcees called the juice crew the one of
her members had a grudge match with an up-and-coming artist out of the Bronx
named KRS ONE and Boogie Down Productions now MC Shan and KRS-ONE
went back-to-back on record Krs-one made a record called the bridges over response
to a record that MC Shan made called the bridge once MC Shan heard Diss record
and got a wind of it he created another diss record
for KRS ONE called kill that noise
most people say that KRS ONE won that battle but if you ask him MC shan
I can guarantee you gave something else to say about that
now that battle between KRS-ONE and MC Shan was a pivotal point in both of
their careers cuz MC Shan career comment dwindled down
after that he wasn't as popular as he was before the battle and KRS-ONE
Caught a lot of popularity and made lot more records and music afterwards now
they say they might be friends today who knows that is all for now I'm your host
James Kraze Billings and this is hip hop you don't stop and right now we're
covering the most influential rap battles until we come back with a couple
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until then Kraze will say peace
you