Big Daddy Kane Almost Comes To Blows With UK Rapper After He Storms His Stage

    Big Daddy Kane didn’t expect UK rapper Kamanchi Sly to storm the stage while he was performing at a recent show, which almost led to the pair getting into a tussle.

    The legendary rapper served as the headliner for a massive Hip Hop 50 event at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on Saturday (August 26), which included additional performances from Elzhi, Onyx, Masta Ace and others.

    In a video captured of the event, Kane can be seen spitting with ferocity to an energized crowd, before a masked rapper – who was later identified as Hijack member Kamanchi Sly – wanders onto the stage and simply stands in front of the cheering audience. Kane tolerates the interruption for a few moments but ends up stopping the music and confronting the masked agitator.

    “You’re doing too much playboy,” Kane said as his security wandered out on stage to escort the rapper off. “I need the stage, you’re doing too much.”

    After gently trying to push Sly off, the rapper turns to him and confronts Kane to his face, saying something to which Kane replies: “That ain’t my fuckin’ problem.”

    Sly continues to antagonize Kane, who at one point tries to take off his jacket and get ready to fight before his crew members come and diffuse the situation.

    It’s unclear what exactly happened, but YouTube commenters who claimed to have been at the show wrote below the aforementioned video that Sly was upset that his group Hijack – a well-established rap group in the UK – kept getting bumped further down the show’s roster in favor of American acts.

    Another alleged attendee wrote: “I heard they rolled up late and missed their spot. No one’s fault apart from Hijack. They got to the venue late and missed their spot. Kane was due to follow Masta Ace and that’s what he did. I heard Hijack missed the slot given to them before Masta Ace and then carried on like this. This is just what I heard.”

    Thankfully, the pair didn’t end up fighting and the show went on as planned.

    Kamanchi Sly, DJ Supreme, DJ Undercover, Ulysses, Agent Fritz and Agent Clueso formed Hijack in the late 1980s. They got a significant buzz following the release of their debut single “Style Wars” and was eventually signed by Ice-T to his label Rhyme Syndicate.

    After extensively working on, and promoting their debut album The Horns of Jericho, the group struggled to release it after Ice-T’s song “Cop Killer” caught the attention of President George Bush and the FBI. Ice was forced to close Rhyme Syndicate records as a result of the controversy, but took steps to ensure Hijack ended up at Warner Bros, but the label only released The Horns Of Jericho in the UK, destroying their ambitions of international stardom.

    “What they did was they released the Hijack album in Britain and apparently didn’t feel the record sold enough there to merit it being sold in the United States,” Ice-T recalled in a previous interview with Rock the Bells. “Now, what number they needed, I was unaware of — I never knew and that conversation never came up to me until later.

    “So it was a very disappointing moment to drop the Hijack album, do the videos, put ’em out, release it in the UK, and then have Warners decide they didn’t want it release it in the United States. That was it.”

    18 thoughts on “Big Daddy Kane Almost Comes To Blows With UK Rapper After He Storms His Stage

    1. Horns of Jericho is one of the Top 5 debut albums by a rap crew hands down
      Don’t know what got into him though…

      1. Yawn… Nxgga shouldn’t have been on CPT(Caribbean People Time in this instance) and got there when he should.have.

        And I bought the Hijack album.

    2. That first track on Jericho is hard. So hard that Nas flipped the sample twice.. (thieves theme/hip hop is dead) however dude showed mad disrespect to Kane and Kane handled it well… Problem is Hijack get no love cos they came from the generation of Uk rappers trying to sound American and therefore just sounded like a gimmick… almost like a Uk parody of PE/NWA etc…. Shame really cos they had the potential to go big!!

      1. Great song yes, but Nas wasn’t sampling the Jericho intro, the sample comes from “In a Gadda Da Vida” from the Incredible Bongo Band which itself is a remake of the Iron Butterfly song of the same name.

    3. That first track on Jericho is hard. So hard that Nas flipped the sample twice.. (thieves theme/hip hop is dead) however dude showed mad disrespect to Kane and Kane handled it well… Problem is Hijack get no love cos they came from the generation of Uk rappers trying to sound American and therefore just sounded like a gimmick… almost like a Uk parody of PE/NWA etc…. Shame really cos they had the potential to go big!!

    4. Big Daddy Kane Is Hip Hop I Wish He Would’ve Did Young Gift An Black, Cause It’s So Many Disrespectful, Rappers Out Here In Need Of Some Real Knowledge, An They All Ways In The Way Thinking They Tough, Looking Like A Fool Foreal, Kane Was A Tough Dude Back In Days That’s What Dude Don’t Know, But As An OG He Held It Very Well The Older Rapper’s That’s Miss Leading The New Generation,Needs To Be Kicked To Curb Have Of What There Saying Is Wrack Anyway I Stay Listing To My Old-school HiP HOP Happy 50th To HIP HOP Well Done Kane….. It’s Hard Being The Kane I’m Still Down With You Pimping LONG LIVE THE KANE ONE LOVE

    5. I swear since Will Smith had his triggered moment this is happening almost constantly. Security needs to start doing their jobs.

    6. Piss Poor Journalism – Onyx didn’t perform due to flight issues.

      Heres the complete truth from someone who was THERE, simplified ;

      Set times did get changed around due to the no-show, they were called and alerted, they were LATE for their set. They were given another slot after Kane and didnt want that.

      They were armed with a drone, cameras attached to their chest, and wanted this all to happen. Why? Because of this. Their set would never have gone viral – but this controversy did. They blamed the promoter, they blamed Masta Ace……..but really they wanted to cause this shitstorm and perform outside the venue to create a stir.

    7. A 54 Year old man wearing a Balaclava and plastic Knuckle rings storming a LEGEND’s set for internet fame? Must be a last ditch effort to be relevant again. Lay off the White Snow Kamanchi and show your OG’s some respect.

      Take accountability and don’t blame the other artists and promoters.

    8. I was there, i can tell you no one in the audience was impressed with K Sly’s actions, and his crews bulling BS back stage. Their name is now mud, they’ll never be seen on a stage again, they could have easily toured off their legacy in UK and europe, but ego has ended that. Doing one lp decades ago and a few garage tracks later on doesn’t made Ace and Kane their peers, when they ain’t even top of the pile of UK hip hop artists let alone JUICE CREW!

    9. I was there, i can tell you no one in the audience was impressed with K Sly’s actions, and his crews bulling BS back stage. Their name is now mud, they’ll never be seen on a stage again, they could have easily toured off their legacy in UK and europe, but ego has ended that. Doing one lp decades ago and a few garage tracks later on doesn’t made Ace and Kane their peers, when they ain’t even top of the pile of UK hip hop artists let alone JUICE CREW!

    10. The shithole which is the UK music industry any real person would be pritty vex-ed in reality all these TOMs clowns sellouts LAMO be yourself

    11. The shithole joke which is the UK music industry .As for what got into him Anyone would be Vex-ed down. He has put in the worx from day 1 should be respected LAMO!
      The scene is full of joke TOMs parasites Lamo!

    12. The shithole joke which is the UK music industry .As for what got into him Anyone would be Vex-ed down. He has put in the worx from day 1 should be respected LAMO!
      The scene is full of joke TOMs parasites Lamo!

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