Nas. Big Pun. Eminem. Every one of them has pointed at the same man when asked who taught them how to stack syllables.
Corona, Queens. Kool G Rap.
"Road to the Riches" dropped in '89 and made mafioso rap a whole lane before anybody had a name for it.
Juice Crew royalty, a pen that turned street stories into full movies, and rhyme schemes people are still trying to reverse-engineer.
Here's what still doesn't get said enough: the man rapped with a lisp.
Never hid it, never fixed it, still out-rhymed his entire era with it.
Took what somebody else would've called a flaw and made it a signature you clock in two bars.
Never got the big plaques.
Got something better, half your favorite lyricists owe him a check for the blueprint.
Kool G Rap turns 58 today.
So where's he land? Top 5 lyricist of all time, or does he sit even higher?
Angela Oakley: “After all these years Knicks fans finally got to witness history…& so did Charles. Nobody could stop this moment…City celebrating…Charles got to see the team he gave his heart to make history. Some things bigger than politics & egos. Tonight belongs to NY”
🚂 WHO built America? Oh, look. Another inconvenient fact.
"Southern railroad companies began buying slaves as early as the 1840s and used enslaved labor ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY to construction their lines"
Immigrants came to a nation that was ALREADY BUILT.
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