"I think it's unhealthy to put expiration dates on artists. "I've yet to hear anyone refer to Madonna as an 'old school pop artist.' I've yet to hear anybody refer to Bruce Springsteen as an 'old school rock artist.' I haven't heard anybody refer to BB King as an 'old school blues artist.' That's only a term in Hip-Hop."
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I don't turn my face up at an older TV show that inspired the TV show.
"I called it 'old school' myself because we paved the way. "I don't even think there needs to be a differentiation of old school versus new school," he says. In his estimation, it's finally time to put an end to ageism in Hip-Hop. While Kane is decidedly low key, he seems to perk up at the notion of connecting the then and now. "Then, instead of a number four,, 'I want a Big Daddy Kane.' That's a beautiful thing." "When I was a kid, I went to the barbershop with the 'Breaks" 12-inch and asked for the Kurtis Blow cut," he says. No one has ever given Big Daddy Kane credit for what we should refer to as, "The Kane Economy." His haircut was so iconic that it created hundreds - if not thousands - of jobs inside both established, and new, Black barbershops. It's a word that Hip-Hop lives by, and it's the essence of Hip-Hop now." "The 'Debonair Three' was the name of my first rap group. The result was something distinctly his: an homage to what came before him, with a contemporary Hip-Hop twist. However, Kane took that to another level by getting bespoke pieces from the who's who of fashion in the late '80s like Dapper Dan and the Shabazz Brothers. Kane says that his unique haircut actually empowered him to dress the way his father dressed - fondly recalling that his dad would regularly wear a four-piece suit to wash the car on Saturday morning. "It gave off the essence of Nefertiti, and the look of like an Egyptian god." "When I first saw - you hear me referring to it as a, 'Cameo cut.' When I saw it on Larry Blackmon, I thought that it looked so royal." Jim Brown and Fred Williamson's afros exuded masculinity and confidence. However, his greatest style inspiration actually came from the R&B world. Hip-Hop style icon, Big Daddy Kane, built upon this tradition of self-expression meets activism with his high-top fade which became a literal blueprint for millions of people around the world who wanted to look just like the Juice Crew legend.Īs a kid, Kane looked at blaxploitation films like Three the Hard Way and Black Caesar as sources of inspiration. Chants like, ”Black is beautiful,” - combined with the powerful silhouette of the afro - became symbols for not only hope, but progress, too. These hairstyles provided context as to a person’s background and social status.ĭuring the Civil Rights Movement, the natural hair movement took hold in the Black community.
For centuries, Black communities around the world have created hairstyles that are uniquely their own - igniting cultural conversations about Black identity - that can be traced back to drawings and engravings from Africa.
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