I just read an article in the Village Voice about MC Busy Bee.  I am sort of obsessed with early early hip hop.  I was trying to start a ’79 style rap group called the Party Rock Three a few years ago, but one of the guys started dating my ex so we stopped talking and then I moved.  I did have one line that I remember:  Everybody in the place just gather ’round ’cause the Party Rock Three are new it town.  We came to bust a mic and rock a rhyme.  We can rock any party; any place; any time.”  Now pretend I am trying to sing like Kurtis Blow and I think you can get the idea of how awesome that would have been.  Anyway, here is an audio clip from the famous night when Kool Moe Dee destroyed Busy Bee.  It goes down as one of the first important rap battles and it is way more entertaining that the 50 Cent/ Kanye publicity stunt.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=cvpBGtNOf_w[/youtube]

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