Since I couldn’t cover everyone last round….more kid rap!
Shyheim The Rugged Child
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Wu-Tang.
Wishes The 90’s Never Ended? Nah, he’s happy his voice broke at last.
Career Highlight: Either appearing on the Biggie/Tupac Madison Square Garden freestyle or copping a feel from T-Boz at the ‘Waterfalls’ video shoot.
Current Career Status: Only Built 4 Sausage Linx.
A+
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Motown exec Kedar Massenburg.
Wishes The 90’s Never Ended? You bet.
Career Highlight: May have lost virginity to Erykah Badu.
Current Career Status: Dropped a mix CD called Back 2 Business in 2005.
The Whooliganz
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Soul Assasins.
Wishes The 90’s Never Ended? More like they wish the 90’s never happened.
Career Highlight: Opening for Cypress Hill at the height of their powers.
Current Career Status: James Caan’s son Scott got into acting and the other dude is now QB beat genius The Alchemist.
Le Juan Love
Mentor/Ghostwriter: 2 Live Crew.
Wishes The 90’s Never Ended? Make that the 80’s.
Career Highlight: Best Miami Bass kid rapper ever.
Current Career Status: Now performing as a hype man for JT Money.
The Puppies
Mentor/Ghostwriter: I’m guessing Disco Rick was involved.
Wishes The 90’s Never Ended? Sure, why not.
Career Highlight: Having a Top 40 hit.
Current Career Status: Managing several Fantasy Football teams.
Souljah Boy
Mentor/Ghostwriter: MC Hammer was certainly an inspiration.
Wishes The 90’s Never Ended? Doesn’t care, was in a nappy.
Career Highlight: Upsetting old rappers.
Current Career Status: Pwning n00bs on Xbox Live, or so he would like us to believe.
Mobb Deep
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Tragedy, Large Pro.
Wishes The 90’s Never Ended? No doubt. They had the game in an effin’ headlock from ’94-’96.
Career Highlight: The Infamous and Hell On Earth.
Current Career Status: Still churning out music of questionable merit (with the exception of the awesome HNIC2),
MC Jade aka MC Percy aka Tragedy
Mentor/Ghostwriter: Marley Marl.
Wishes The 90’s Never Ended? Could care less.
Career Highlight: Masterminding CNN’s The War Report.
Current Career Status: Back in the bing.
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mobb deep and black moon forever?
liked the vicious album.
shyheim’s 2nd was nice.
I had to go with Tragedy,yeah he’s in the BING-yet again,but his legacy includes-The Rebel & Live Motivator from Marley’s:in Control vol.1,and his Opus-self titled:Intelligent Hoodlum,featured groundbreaking and(mostly uncredited Production)from LARGE PROFESSOR.And this dude(Trag) influenced most of the mid ’90’s emcees in Queens,so it’s Tragedy all day for me.
I posted in part 1 to include Wascals and kaution so as not to forget the west coast lol .. i guess website was actin up .. i also did cite mobb deep .. good shyt robbie
These 2 articles have been f’n hilarious. I guess I never realized how many kiddy rappers there were.
I gotta go with Trag tho his shit was sharp and he gets bonus points for putting CNN on.
There’s mad videos on youtube of Shyheim talking about his ‘bid upstate’.
Think I’m gonna go with Trag. He was putting out quality stuff at a real young age. I would go with Mobb but their early stuff never really caught my ear.
Shyheim would be third. The rest are trash. I remember I had some promo stickers for A+ and DJ Muggs’ solo LP and I stuck them all over a stop sign or something.
The Puppies had a top 40 with that? Never knew. I think their highlight was that “Your Momma’s on Crack Rock” song though.
trag all day….intelligent hoodlum 12″ was basically nas before nas.
Co-signing R. Jones, haroon, and mercilesz…Tragedy all day.
definitely Trag. I gotta add who the first kid rapper I heard, T Omar in ’85. Had a track called “I’m Only 9” on Raspur. Actually that same night I heard that track. I heard Hassan’s “Co’ Rock Stuff” that had a ill verse by “Little 7” with the classic props to his DJ, “7-11, he deserves recognition, I’ll be glad when he can find some competition!”.
What about Uptown of “Dope On Plastic” fame. Wasn’t he like 13 when he dropped that “Dope On Plastic” joint?
what about Special Ed
Putting Tragedy in is a cheat imo because that’s an OG right there. But Shyhiem’s “On and On” is a great track, and A+’s Latch-Key Child record is crazy.
Who was that kid who appeared on that one De La 12″ ‘Mack Daddy on the left’ – was that Chi Ali – I used to like that joint.
chi ali.
it gotta’ be Tragedy for the win!
Anyone remember T. Omar with “I’m Only Nine”? He was on Rapsur so I guess he was Bobby Jimmy’s protege. I don’t know if that was the first kiddy rap record but it might be the worst.
I reckon it’s got to be be Shyheim for the ‘kid rap’ win, wheras Trag was more of a ‘conventional’ hip hop legend, ultimately, and Mobb Deep and Tha Youngstas are more your moody teenagers.
I might be prejudiced by the xylophones on the Premier remix of ‘On and On’, however. Ace remix.
right, shyheim 2nd album is nice.
what about wu-tang’s siblings?
“nerd comment”: funny! but i sincerely doubt jermaine dupri ever wrote a rhyme himself! if you listen to “jump”, that reminds of “mad” skillz style… in “ghostwriter” he says:
“Remember the little kids, the one that was in ______ group?
I’m the reason you though they lil raps was so cute” and also “fuck Jermaine Dupri and his whole label cause I ain’t never get my plaque, nig*a”
ps so… when a ghostwriting post?
LL > RUN DMC
Serch > UTFO
Del > Ice Cube
etc…
Yeah, Robbie!!! A ghost writing piece would def. be a good look.
That Le Juan Love video is on some Milky Bar Kid tip – The Milky Bar Kid never rapped though.. he left that up to Kevin from Grange Hill
hardcore rhymes thou, you gotta peep the b-side ed… hard shit all day
Yeah Robbie.what up with a ghostwriters post??
Kane > LL (walking with a panther)
Kam > Ice-Cube(Death certificate:Life side)
Del > Ice Cube,Yo Yo( Amerikkka’s most&Make way)
Dj Bobbybobcat > LL(I’M Bad,I Need Love)
^ This week is gonna be all about Special Requests…including the Useless DJs and Ghsitwriters posts.
Yo that dude Le Juan Love had a better song that Stretch & Bob use to spin on their show …… something about school, can’t really remember ….. I gotta go find that tape ……
check dis best kid rapper in the south rite now only 12 and shes a female not only a rapper actress, and performer http://www.myspace.com/tekaboomonkeyjuice
Why aint The Wascals get any love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVeSFbW_EHc
The only notable omission I could think of from your two kiddy rapper lists is/was Braille. Braille recorded his excellent “Life first…half the battle” debut album at 16 and was 17 when it dropped.
One of Kriss Kross OD’d.
Shyheim seems to be trapped in a revolving door of incarceration and addiction. Sad.
Various offspring/nephews of the Wu Tang clan have either guested on their parents’ records (cf Gza’s Pro Tools) or have tried to have rap careers (e.g. one of ODB’s umpteen kids). I guess letting them appear on mixtapes works out cheaper than paying child support or being an active parent.