Albums:

Veteranz Day (1998)

Daddy’s Home (1994)

Looks like a Job For..(1993)

Prince of Darkness (1991)

Taste of Chocolate (1990)

It’s a Big Daddy Thing (1989)

Long Live the Kane (1988)

Halftime: Let’s start off with something simple. How did you come up with your name?

Big Daddy Kane: The Big Daddy part and the Kane part came from two different things. The Kane part came from my fascination with the Martial Arts flicks when I was young. It’s like the most popular name cuz at that time you had Bruce Lee, Masta Killa, and Kane, young grasshopper. That was something used as a joke because niggas wanna play cocoa leavy or skelly outside but Thursday nights at 9 pm I can’t do it. Saturday at 3 o’clock, I can’t do it. I’m going to watch Kung Fu Theater on Saturday and the show Kung Fu on Thursday nights. That’s where the Kane part came from. The Big Daddy came from something that happened on a ski trip one time involving a young lady. It was a beach party with Vincent Price.

I listen to “Ain’t No Half Steppin’” all the time. When you recorded that, did you have any idea it would be as long lasting as it’s become?

Kane: When I recorded it, nah I didn’t. It had to really grow on me. Probably G. Rap and Ant Live, Eric B’s brother, were the ones that really made me feel it. We took a trip down to a basketball game in Baltimore and they was really bigging it up. That really convinced to be like yea yea yea I gotta get into this joint. When I first recorded, I wasn’t quite sure. I was digging it but Marley was fucking with me saying the record had too many samples in it.

What’s going on with Scoob and Scrap Lover nowadays?

Kane: I ain’t talked to Scrap in years. Scoob is chillin though. He is doing his thing. He be running with M.O.P a lot. We talked like last week. He’s chillin.

As a rapper, you did some collaborations with people that were next to impossible. How did you get together to do “All of Me” with Barry White?

Kane: We had met at Quincy Jones’ house during the “Back on the Block” project. He was on “Secret Garden” and I was on “Back on the Block” and “Birdland.” We met up at Q’s house and we talked outside for a brief moment. My man Alonzo Brown was like the head A&R cat at A&M records where Barry was at the time and he told him Kane is a real big fan of yours, he’s always playing your stuff and it would be hot if ya’ll got together. Barry was like tell him I’m a fan of his work too and we need to make that happen. One day I was in The Mondrian and Barry just called and invited me over. I came over and we sat and talked and just shot the shit and realized how much we had in common. Like my birthday is September the 10th his was September the 12th and we liked the same video games. We just had so much in common and I told him an idea I had for a song and come to find out he actually recorded a song called “All of Me Wants All of You” in the 70s that he never released. He was really tripping that I had the same idea for the title.

I was listening to KRS-ONE on the Wake Up Show the other day and he said one time Biz came up to him and was telling him how ill you were and KRS was like he was ready to battle you right then but you was like nah. Any truth to that story?

Kane: Nah.

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Posted by Halftime on Thursday, April 8th, 2004 and is filed under HIP HOP ICON SERIES.