Ok I’m gonna keep it real here I’m a huge Kurtis Blow fan I grew up listening to all of his albums from the years of 1978-1986 by the time 1988 rolled around It was pretty much done with Kurtis Blow because you had a different style of rap that bursting onto the scene which was golden age era hip hop in which you had rappers such as Biz Markie, Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T, Eric B & Rakim, KRS-ONE, and many others who were rapping to a different sound I mean Kurtis Blow tried to keep up with this style of rap but his generation era of hip hop was way more simpler in his early days when he came out with the Breaks,Tough,AJ Scratch,Basketball, and If I Ruled The World we’re all classic hits but Kurtis was from a way different era of rap but in my book he’s still one of the greatest mc’s of all time Kurtis Blow 4Ever NYC stand up.
Decent track. It was obvious he was trying to change his flow & style to fit that era in Hip Hop. Around this time tongue twisting & metaphors were getting big & fitting as many words as you can in a bar. Hip Hop was evolving from it's beginnings. Kurtis Blow was from a time when lyrics was much simpler. He was from the alphabet style of rhyming but this was around the time where you had to be a lyricist like KRS ONE, Kane, Rakim, etc & he wanted to step his game up to that level.
Actually, there was. See, nowadays, everyone loves Jay Z and says he has longevity. Of course he does: Every album, he bites another's style. Check some of Jay Z's early stuff in the 90s ... yo, my man from BK even bit off of Criss Cross ... word is bond - he bit off of Criss Cross
So, at least Kurtis Blow kept his returns real.
