![]() ![]() ![]() So we stepped to them and then Jermaine Dupri got smart, so Jamal snuffed him. So they started gettin' on the mic with that old dumb shit. Nobody was paying them any attention and everybody was trying to meet us and shit. In a 1993 interview with 4080 magazine, the duo was asked if there was any truth to rumors that one of them had gotten into an altercation with Kris Kross. The duo had a harder sound and image than any of the other groups had attempted at that point, and seemed to liken themselves to Sermon's EPMD and Hit Squad crews. Illegal called out Kris Kross, Da Youngsta's and Another Bad Creation, proclaiming themselves to be the bearers of rap authenticity for the chocolate milk set. "Pass Da Mic" saw moderate success in the summer of 1992, thanks to a video and a single that had been remixed by Pete Rock. Comprised of brothers Taji and Qu'ran Goodman and cousin Tarik Dawson, the trio came out of Philadelphia with a hardcore East Coast approach, even if their still-adolescent voices and baby faces belied their youth. At the time, one of only 11 songs to top the Hot 100 for at least eight weeks, "Jump" opens with a very clear shot at fellow ATLiens Another Bad Creation who were already beginning to spiral into obscurity less than a year removed from "Playground." If the assertion was that ABC was illegitimate, it was highly dubious for these guys to be taking shots when they themselves were the creation of a Svengali in Jermaine Dupri.ĭa Youngstas dropped their debut single just two months prior to Kris Kross topping the charts. Kris Kross dropped their debut single, The Jackson 5-sampling "Jump" in early 1992 and the song shot all the way to No. People were paying attention," Dupri told Fred Bronson in Bronson's Billboard Book of Number One Hits. "I said, 'If you have that captivation over people right now, if you had a record out, this might be ridiculous.'" But two years later, we got a record contract." But you don't really think about it too much-because it might not happen. "But you know, everybody thinks about that stuff. "We thought about it," Smith explained to the Washington Post. They'd never seriously aspired to be rappers prior to meeting Dupri. He saw the star potential in the younger pair, and Dupri immediately set about crafting an image and sound for the soon-to-be rap group. Regardless of ABC's primary image as an "edgy" bubblegum R&B group, they seemed rife for parody when another platinum-selling teenybopper act emerged out of Atlanta just a year after Another Bad Creation's high-profile pair of hits.ġ8-year old up-and-coming producer Jermaine Dupri had seen middle schoolers Chris Smith and Chris Kelly walking through an Atlanta shopping mall and drawing attention with their hair and clothes. No kids’ group with that kind of image had ever made it big. ![]() We wanted a group that had a touch of danger to it-that looked and acted a little threatening. But this is the ‘90s, and many groups with a tough image are making it big. "The Jackson 5 and New Edition were more wholesome, which was appropriate for that time. “The plan was to (make the kids) fit the ‘90s-hip with a street feel," explained their manager Kevin Wales in 1991. Nonetheless, the group's sound was teenybopper R&B intended to appeal to Hip-Hop fans and it's image was drenched in Hip-Hop swagger. The more rap-edged "Playground," was another big success in early 1991, almost matching the chart success of "Iesha." Another Bad Creation's second single was more directly Hip-Hop, but the group wasn't exactly marketed as a rap group. The group's debut single, the Dallas Austin-produced new jack swing hit "Iesha" went to No. In the Atlanta-based ABC, Bivins marketed a group that had a combo of New Edition's early 1980s kiddie appeal and BBD's early 1990s street edge. Bivins had been eager to put together a teen group in the vein of early New Edition ever since he'd seen The Boys, a group signed to Motown by former N.E. Illegal.Īnother Bad Creation had been the discovery of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe member Michael Bivins. This is the story of the early 1990s kiddie rap wars a multi-faceted squabble between a slew of pubescent rhymers who all happened to drop debut albums between 19.Īnother Bad Creation. In the early 1990s, a handful of artists became embroiled in a beef that made no headlines even if you remember the era, you may not have even known that this beef existed. In the 1990s, rap beefs played out over months, sometimes years, and could spiral in dizzying directions before fans even realized they'd happened. In the age of streaming services and social media, rap beefs boil over in record time, with diss records hurled across the cybersphere at a breakneck pace, fueling trending topics and inspiring memes. ![]()
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