MC Lyte Reveals How Massive Daddy Kane Friendship Led To Legendary Collab

MC Lyte recruited fellow Hip-Hop legends Massive Daddy Kane and Salt of Salt-n-Pepa for the brand new single “Girl” produced by Warryn Campbell. The rap pioneer mentioned the Raheem DeVaughn-assisted music’s creation in an interview with AllHipHop’s Chuck Creekmur.

“Massive Daddy Kane and Raheem DeVaughn, who does the hook, had been on the town in Los Angeles and we’re associates,” MC Lyte instructed AllHipHop. “So, I’m speaking to Kane. I’m like, ‘The place are you?’ He mentioned, ‘Oh, I’m right here.’ I’m like, ‘Come by the studio.’ Identical factor with Raheem. And so, I gotta inform you – Warryn’s studio isn’t shut. You bought to sort of go all the best way out to get to the studio. So, you actually imply to be there. It’s a must to be intentional about it. And so we had been capable of get within the studio, hearken to a few tracks, and we did two different songs as nicely.”

MC Lyte praised Campbell, a Grammy Award-winning producer, for being the proper collaborator for this stage of her profession The 2 bonded after the demise of Heavy D.

“Warryn and I fashioned a brother-sister relationship as soon as Heavy handed,” MC Lyte mentioned. “Heavy was type of our connection. And each time I might go to Heavy within the studio, who else could be there? Warryn. After which additionally Warren was on the A&R crew at Elektra EastWest after I was with a serious document label. And so we fashioned a bond. I’m additionally a member of his church, California Worship Middle.”

She continued, “Being in a studio with him has been such an invigorating course of as a result of the one factor that’s essential for me to convey to the desk is fact. And I don’t must placed on airs. I’m not the identical woman who rapped ‘Ruffneck.’ And so, I don’t like going into [the] studio with producers who count on the identical of me, which might type of hold you on this cycle of attempting to do one thing that was. So, anyway, it’s a pleasure to work with him within the studio.”

MC Lyte’s “Girl” dropped on Friday (March 22). The anthem was launched to rejoice Ladies’s Historical past Month.