Rappin Ron can rap all night off the head. Ron used to hang out in Alvingroom as a kid. My Alvingroom folks said when he talked in casual conversation he’d make sure he followed up every sentence with a rhyme and by the time he turned 18 years old he became a freestyle beast. Seagram was also one of them ones when it came to freestyling.
Heard so much about this legendary battle for years. Glad Banks could add some clarification about the whole situation, including the beats he did for Dru Down. RIP Ron he was fierce on the mic! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Rab, thank you! I've been wanting to really hear Banks' perspective since I met him at Leopold's way back when he was on his promo run for Sittin on Somethin Phat!
I appreciate this one hella much. The big badass!!!! Oaktown representer. My childhood wouldn't have been the same without Ant Banks..... Ant!!!!! Just know!!! Oakland funk....... Man..... You did that bruh. Thank you fam. The big badass!!!!!! 💪
Love Oakland, from Detroit & got embraced when I moved to 68th & MacArthur. Bad Influence was my team to go to w/the music as a kid, especially on that Get in where you fit in song
Yep. Rappin Ron walked up to us at the coliseum Bart station and told us to point at something and he would rap about whatever we pointed at. We was in middle school at the time going to king estates. Ron was the dopest freestyle rapper in Oakland.
People don't give Eiht enough credit for his diss tracks. Some points 1: "Can't get no respect so punk here drop this / report yo homies for domestic violence (911)/ for beatin yo btch a$$ up & down da block" This was hard because you can see this shyt. 2: Mc Eiht is one of the greatest mc's. When I think of west coast Mc's.. Eiht is the first. When I think of hip hop, emcee'n 3: I got onto listening to Eiht because I was a Quik fan. Me and my BM was like man, this ngga music is so damn hard. We had to fck w it. 4: salute to Eiht!
When I was in Atlanta Georgia 1988 too short was the s***I mean all that. I remember when p o o h man was about to get in a fight with DJ quik back in the day but I'm glad that everybody is cool now ..
Rappin Ron had them off the dome flows like boys in Tx when I was a kid I thought them cats was from Houston lol I thought Oakland was a area in Tx but again when I was a kid
Aunt Banks is one of the greatest producers of all time beats are Original MC Eiht one of the greatest rappers of all time top 25 bad influence Rappin Ron was cold asl Chicago played the shot out of them
That was just Ant Banks beening a producer...that shit turned out tight. They paid that money and thought they was gonna sit under him all day in the studio
Ant Banks is a genius like Dr Dre..maybe 'Dru' should've been recording with 'DR DRE' where HE'LL MAKE YOU DO YO VERSE OVER & OVER & OVER to Millions of times til you'll have to see a darn Psychiatrist after repeating your verses.
Like to give a shout out to my folks ant Banks we met each other at the first annual of hip hop on the Green Oakland Calif. Andrew Lee Ashford got me in.. what's up to p o o h man boots Riley black dynasty delinquents mistah Fab too short Katt Williams Rodney Perry Keyshia Cole King George MC man Ray love sway Capital tax del the funky. I was on stage with rappin Ron downtown Oakland California rest in peace I grew up with Dru down MC ant . Black dynasty delinquents. P o o h man I haven't seen ant Banks p o o h man delinquents Katt Williams Rodney Perry too short Keyshia Cole King George v e l l i o n e sway Mc. Man. Del the funky in a long time we need a family reunion documentary a movie because I know I got a billion dollar story how I met Tupac biggie smalls too Short Keyshia Cole Patti LaBelle George Duke sway from MTV boots Riley film director rapper del the funky that's ice cube's cousin DJ fuze from digital underground ant Banks Dave Hollister from blackstreet father d o m black dynasty Paris special 1 from the conscious daughters v e l l q w a n 17 rounds CD only singer kasim soul smooth also he have a song with the legendary Master p you don't know me change his name to v e l l i o n e and if you Google up the word it will mention something about the legendary Tupac Shakur imagine that because my best friend is Tupac's best friend the governor Oakland California free Joseph flowers also MC ant . Family stay across the street from me. Oh yeah by the way I'm glad that my folks are back together three times crazy forever and rest in peace Bart's daughter and Betsy Thomas. Tupac Shakur skrilla Mike
@NO VULTURES I know you had to be nice to MC 8, he is not even on the map of rap. Nobody plays his 2 songs anymore. 8 is the epitome of low performing rappers with only memories and nothing recent.
Does anyone know about a tribute song that was made for Oakland by a duo (think they were from North Oakland) that shouted out all Oaktown rappers? It was made some time around 93-6 and the video used to be on YT it was uploaded like 15 years ago I saw it 2 years ago and never seen it again