{"id":226364,"date":"2026-04-22T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=226364"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:29:40","slug":"big-daddy-kane-shows-up-on-ring-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/big-daddy-kane-shows-up-on-ring-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Daddy Kane shows up on &#8220;Ring Champs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pRlWDTHwbgU?si=dEVY2tgpuDNYRK9V\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn legend and Hip-Hop icon<strong> Big Daddy Kane<\/strong> joins <strong>Ak &amp; Barak<\/strong> on RING CHAMPS for one of the most legendary conversations yet. Kane opens up about helping put on a young <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong>, taking him on tour as his opening act, and why he believes we never would have gotten Reasonable Doubt if Jay had blown up with his original fast-rap style. He shares the story of touring with<strong> Tupac<\/strong> back when Pac was still a dancer for <strong>Digital Underground<\/strong>, the night <strong>Mister Cee<\/strong> kept telling him <strong>Biggie<\/strong> sounded just like him, and the moment he heard <strong>Grandmaster Caz<\/strong> and threw his entire rap book in the trash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"226365\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/big-daddy-kane-shows-up-on-ring-champs\/big-daddy-kane-on-ring-champs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Big-Daddy-Kane-on-Ring-Champs.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Big Daddy Kane on Ring Champs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Big-Daddy-Kane-on-Ring-Champs-1024x576.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-226365\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Big-Daddy-Kane-on-Ring-Champs.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Big-Daddy-Kane-on-Ring-Champs.avif 1280w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Big-Daddy-Kane-on-Ring-Champs-540x304.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Big-Daddy-Kane-on-Ring-Champs-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Big-Daddy-Kane-on-Ring-Champs-768x432.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Brooklyn legend and Hip-Hop icon Big Daddy Kane joins Ak &amp; Barak on RING&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-WT2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226366,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226364\/revisions\/226366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}