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Exclusive: Easy Mo Bee connects the dots from producing for Big Daddy Kane, RZA and GZA to eventually crafting music with Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
Full interview : http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/interv...-ready-to-die-
Easy Mo Bee is one of the names who should come up in the conversation of the most important producers in the history of Hip Hop. Having witnessed the inception of the inner-city New York subculture develop from a cottage industry to becoming uprooted into mainstream lexicon across the world, he was at the forefront of producers from the second and third generations of Rap music, also renowned as the “Golden Era.” Hailed for his work with artists such as Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, The Genius and RZA of Wu-Tang Clan in the early stages of their careers, Das Efx, and has won Grammy awards for his work with the late Jazz icon Miles Davis and R&B songstress Alicia Keys. Notably, Mo Bee is also the only producer to have worked with both former mutual friends Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. during their lifetimes.
Twenty years ago on Sept 13, 1994, The Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls, became a Rap phenomenon with the release of his debut album Ready To Die. With production help from DJ Premier, Nashiem Myrick, Lord Finesse, Chucky Thompson, The Bluez Brothers (Lord Digga & Norman Glover), Darnell Scott, and The Trackmasters, nine of the album’s sixteen songs made each of these producers who championed the transition for New York City’s underground and commercial Rap sound into the late ‘90s. Easy Mo Bee was the first producer picked by former Uptown Records founder/CEO Andre Harrell and a then-young Sean “Puffy” Combs to record with Biggie on his first two commercially released solo records “Party and Bullshit” and the title track for Ready To Die.
Here, Easy Mo Bee speaks in the tone of a village griot that provides his younger neighbors with stories and occasionally sounding out his production work to accentuate his life experiences working amongst Rap’s elite. Easy Mo Bee discusses the beginnings of his history in the music business as an artist in Rappin’ Is Fundamental with his fellow Brooklyn, childhood friends J.R. and future business partner of New Vision Entertainment, A.B. Money, and how his work with ‘80s Rap god Big Daddy Kane led to him developing the early sounds of the future Wu Tang Clan co-founders The GZA and RZA during their time on Cold Chillin’ Records. To positively invert the media-sensationalized bi-coastal rap wars centered around 2Pac and Biggie, we examine the bi-coastal influences of Biggie’s Brooklyn hometown hero Big Daddy Kane and Los Angeles Rap legend Ice Cube upon Biggie’s flow and storytelling ability to assemble his iconic debut LP. Get ready to learn about the hard work and fate for both Easy Mo Bee and Biggie that led to their crossed paths to create of one of the greatest albums in music history.
Full interview : http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/interv...-ready-to-die-
Easy Mo Bee is one of the names who should come up in the conversation of the most important producers in the history of Hip Hop. Having witnessed the inception of the inner-city New York subculture develop from a cottage industry to becoming uprooted into mainstream lexicon across the world, he was at the forefront of producers from the second and third generations of Rap music, also renowned as the “Golden Era.” Hailed for his work with artists such as Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, The Genius and RZA of Wu-Tang Clan in the early stages of their careers, Das Efx, and has won Grammy awards for his work with the late Jazz icon Miles Davis and R&B songstress Alicia Keys. Notably, Mo Bee is also the only producer to have worked with both former mutual friends Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. during their lifetimes.
Twenty years ago on Sept 13, 1994, The Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls, became a Rap phenomenon with the release of his debut album Ready To Die. With production help from DJ Premier, Nashiem Myrick, Lord Finesse, Chucky Thompson, The Bluez Brothers (Lord Digga & Norman Glover), Darnell Scott, and The Trackmasters, nine of the album’s sixteen songs made each of these producers who championed the transition for New York City’s underground and commercial Rap sound into the late ‘90s. Easy Mo Bee was the first producer picked by former Uptown Records founder/CEO Andre Harrell and a then-young Sean “Puffy” Combs to record with Biggie on his first two commercially released solo records “Party and Bullshit” and the title track for Ready To Die.
Here, Easy Mo Bee speaks in the tone of a village griot that provides his younger neighbors with stories and occasionally sounding out his production work to accentuate his life experiences working amongst Rap’s elite. Easy Mo Bee discusses the beginnings of his history in the music business as an artist in Rappin’ Is Fundamental with his fellow Brooklyn, childhood friends J.R. and future business partner of New Vision Entertainment, A.B. Money, and how his work with ‘80s Rap god Big Daddy Kane led to him developing the early sounds of the future Wu Tang Clan co-founders The GZA and RZA during their time on Cold Chillin’ Records. To positively invert the media-sensationalized bi-coastal rap wars centered around 2Pac and Biggie, we examine the bi-coastal influences of Biggie’s Brooklyn hometown hero Big Daddy Kane and Los Angeles Rap legend Ice Cube upon Biggie’s flow and storytelling ability to assemble his iconic debut LP. Get ready to learn about the hard work and fate for both Easy Mo Bee and Biggie that led to their crossed paths to create of one of the greatest albums in music history.
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