Big Daddy Kane: A Taste Of Chocolate
Paolo Hewitt, Select, December 1990
WHEN BIG Daddy Kane released his debut LP, Long Live The Kane, in 1988, his producer Marley Marl's emphasis on slower beats and rhymes meant that his work, which tended to run a little against the year's dominant sound, was underrated. Compared to, say, Public Enemy's frantic wall-of-rap sound, Big Daddy was considered a promising middleweight.
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