Daddy’s Home

Big Daddy Kane w/ Big Scoob, Jay-Z, ODB, Sauce Money, Shyheim: “Show & Prove”
Big Daddy Kane: “Sex According To The Prince Of Darkness”
From: Daddy’s Home [M.C.A., 1994]

The worst thing about BDK’s Daddy’s Home is Big Scoob, or if you prefer, Scoob Lover. Scoob is annoying like Fransworth Bentley and I’m guessing he’s the little cousin to a someone, because his rhymes are ugly. He leads “Show & Prove” into a mild train wreck, but Sauce Money, Shyheim, BDK, Jay-Z and ODB more than compansate with tetchy raps. Premier cuts up a Slick Rick sample (coincidently, Daddy’s Home’s “In The PJs” has a Slick cut) for his boom-bap production that is built for a posse cut. Young Shawn Carter delivers like Fu-Shnickens and hearing junior Jay-Z always cracks a smile on my face. Shyheim’s child rapping days were an enigma to rap fans of his generation. Born in `79 and Wu-affiliated by 14-years-old, his accomplishment raised the bar too high causing him to falloff, but Shyheim turned heads at the end of rap’s golden era, for this we forget his post-teen products.

Feeling bad about liking “Sex According To The Prince Of Darkness” is OK, but if freaking girls is a sin then BDK is a nun’s worst fear. Vintage BDK sexes the mic with Big Willy lyrics that wouldn’t work for no man other than BDK. I am sure more than a few women oppose BDK’s command of the tongue. However, it’s OK to place Adina Howard’s “Freak Like Me” number two on Billboard-whatever, point is when I am going to the bedroom I prefer the BDK mentality. The saxophone is an infectious addition to this silky production that is a sure-shot headphone banger. Bottom line: this joint is one hard freak rap ballad.

Ready To Die foreshadows a lot of records released in `94 and forgetting about BDK’s album is not hard. Although a lot of people blink and miss Daddy’s Home, the cover is tight, but I don’t have a camera or scanner handy!