{"product_id":"9781668211564","title":"Just Rhymin' With Biz","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBEFORE THEY BECAME LEGENDS, THEY BECAME FRIENDS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA showstopping coming-of-age memoir from hip-hop icon Big Daddy Kane about his unforgettable friendship with Biz Markie and the birth of rap’s Golden Age in New York City.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBig Daddy Kane met Biz Markie during a rap battle at Brooklyn’s Albee Square Mall. The year was 1984. Kane was sixteen, smooth, stylish, and competitive. Biz was twenty, a larger-than-life beatboxing hustler and funny man, spinning outrageous stories and impossible plans. Kane thought he was crazy. Then Biz told him he was going to make it and promised to take Kane with him.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJust Rhymin’ With Biz\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of close friends riding trains between Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island, sneaking into clubs, chasing girls, writing rhymes, hustling their way onto stages, and finding their place in a culture exploding around them. Park jams were becoming hit records, neighborhood MCs were becoming stars, and the sound of New York was about to change the world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Soon, Kane would redefine the art of MCing with \u003ci\u003eLong Live the Kane\u003c\/i\u003e and “Ain’t No Half-Steppin’,” while Biz would become one of hip-hop’s most beloved originals with “Vapors” and “Just a Friend.” Behind those records was a friendship far more complicated than the public knew.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Funny, intimate, and alive with the vanished New York that made them, \u003ci\u003eJust Rhymin’ With Biz\u003c\/i\u003e is both a vivid portrait of an extraordinary friendship and a firsthand account of hip-hop coming of age.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":60389516771614,"sku":"9781668211564","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.simonandschuster.com\/products\/9781668211564","provider":"Simon and Schuster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}