EPISODE · Jun 19, 2023 · 1 MIN

Devastating Two (Stoop Rap Rendition: 3D Crew Precursor 1984)

from #StoriesAboutSongs · host RedefineHipHop

This is technically before 3D Crew existed. This is me, MC Coolie, teaching MC Capri how to MC. I decide to teach him by having him learning Double Trouble's "Stoop Rap" from Wild Style, and then from there right his own solo verse. So this is actually us sitting on my front stoop in Manhattan, KS, where I briefly lived for approximately 3 months. For this short period, MC Capri and I went by the Devastating 2, which was the name of my group from Stuttgart, Germany, with my best friend Rubens Matos. We recorded one tape in 1982, but then he stopped rhyming (far as I know), and I moved away.