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

MC Lyte recruited fellow Hip-Hop legends Large 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.

“Large Daddy Kane and Raheem DeVaughn, who does the hook, had been on the town in Los Angeles and we’re buddies,” MC Lyte informed 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.’ Similar factor with Raheem. And so, I gotta let you know – Warryn’s studio isn’t shut. You bought to form of go all the best way out to get to the studio. So, you actually imply to be there. You need to be intentional about it. And so we had been in a position to get within the studio, hearken to a few tracks, and we did two different songs as properly.”

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 loss of life of Heavy D.

“Warryn and I shaped a brother-sister relationship as soon as Heavy handed,” MC Lyte mentioned. “Heavy was form of our connection. And at any time when I’d go to Heavy within the studio, who else can 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 shaped a bond. I’m additionally a member of his church, California Worship Heart.”

She continued, “Being in a studio with him has been such an invigorating course of as a result of the one factor that’s vital for me to carry to the desk is fact. And I don’t need to placed on airs. I’m not the identical lady who rapped ‘Ruffneck.’ And so, I don’t like going into [the] studio with producers who count on the identical of me, which might form of maintain you on this cycle of making an attempt 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.