Multi-platinum selling producer/rapper Kwamé celebrated his birthday by bringing fans one of the most ambitious Instagram Live endeavors yet: a six-plus hour showcase featuring a plethora of legendary MCs.
Kicking off with Roxanne Shante, Kwamé treated his audience with guest after guest while mixing in DJ sets of classics from the ’90s and early 2000s.
The star-studded livestream provided viewers with plenty of highlights. One was Black Sheep’s Dres, who previewed a verse off of his upcoming project produced entirely by the late J Dilla.
There was also a cornucopia of great conversations too, particularly Money B and Kwam sharing tour stories.
A livestream with this many moving parts wasn’t without its hiccups though. One pervasive issue was individuals jamming up the requests, making it difficult for Kwam to add more artists. As a result, Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J and a host of others didn’t get to be a part of the experience.
However, that did little to take away from the show. Things went so well it appears this is going to become a regular thing. Kwamé even toyed with the concept of having an R&B format as well.
For those that missed it, check out the full guest recap below.
Guests in order:
Roxanne Shante
Hakeem (Channel Live)
Kangol Kid (UTFO)
DJ Kool
Chubb Rock
Dres (Black Sheep)
J.J. Fad
Doitall (Lords Of The Underground)
Money B (Digital Underground)
Masta Ace
Dana Dane
Sweet Tee
Tasha Mabry (New Beginning)
Tash (Tha Alkaholiks)
King T
Nonchalant
Special Ed
DJ Tat Money
Kid
Prince Markie Dee
Bobby J From Rockaway
Skillz
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That’s what I’m talking about that’s longevity at its finest you understand what I’m saying classic hip hop at its finest all the youngns out there need to take notes that’s how you rock the mic and rock rhymes that’s when hip hop was about lyrics the music not about this mediocre watered down auto tune bull shit of today happy bday kwame looking good brotha you don’t look 50 at all look better than lot of these burnt out 20 something drug Attics everybody still got it king tee Chubb rock Roxanne Shamir Masta ace dres from black sheep and especially my man. Special ed I had the pleasure of meeting him at CIAA back in 2017 what a cool down to earth brotha one of my favorite mcs most slept on mcs of all time hands down
Man Kwame looks good at his age….this ought to be a silent message to you guys that pick on “old heads” for talking about living right and “younger generation” here’s the results of it here.
Man ain’t no doubt that I’m waiting on that Dilla-produced joint with Dres.