{"id":33202,"date":"2025-09-23T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/33202\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:05:08","slug":"kid-capri-the-love-rapreviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/33202\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Capri :: The Love \u2013 RapReviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s strange to talk about Kid Capri<\/a> as a rapper. He\u2019s certainly got credentials in the rap game \u2014 in fact if I was making a list of mixtape deejays he\u2019d be \u201cfirst ballot\u201d in the Rap Hall of Fame. From the late 1980\u2019s up to the 2000\u2019s he was HUGE. If you got featured on a Kid Capri mixtape you were legit, and maybe just maybe you were leaking your material to David Love just to generate a buzz for your next album. It makes me smile just thinking about him yelling \u201cKIIIIIIID CAPRI<\/a>\u201d at random on anybody\u2019s track. Didn\u2019t matter who, where, when or why. If you were born in the 70\u2019s or 80\u2019s and loved rap music as a kid, you knew his name.<\/p>\n

So yes he\u2019s earned the nickname \u201cThe World Famous Kid Capri\u201d ten times over. Even if he says it himself that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not true. When I think about him though it\u2019s always as a deejay first. It doesn\u2019t mean he can\u2019t rap. It doesn\u2019t mean he shouldn\u2019t rap. It\u2019s just not what I associate him with at the top of my mind. He parlayed his notoriety into his own record deal for \u201cThe Tape<\/a>\u201d in 1991, and thanks to the rose colored glasses of nostalgia, I can still listen to it with fond affection today. It\u2019s not a classic though. Wasn\u2019t then, isn\u2019t now. Had some good joints. Had some really good production by the late Biz Markie and his partner-in-crime Cool V. Kid Capri\u2019s strength was never rapping though.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalking that okie-doke\/you want the smoke?
So don\u2019t provoke\/cause I ain\u2019t laughin\u2019 at your dumb-ass jokes\u201d<\/p>\n

The sentiments of \u201cWide Awake\u201d are not out of place. As a legend he\u2019s certainly entitled to a healthy disdain for mediocre modern emcees who can\u2019t hold a candle to the kind of rapping he did 35 years ago, but that makes it just as strange for a man in his late 50\u2019s to spit bars like he just stepped into the rap game in the 2020\u2019s. In fact the delivery takes out the trademark high pitched energy that makes David Love a personal favorite of mine on mixtapes. \u201cCan\u2019t take you and all that shit you call hip-hop.\u201d Sure Mr. Love, I agree, but why are you imitating a modern way of rapping, spitting bunched up couplets rapid fire like a machine gun? Where\u2019s the flair we know you for? It\u2019s enough to make me say \u201cWTF.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he drops Michael Bivins<\/a> as a punchline he\u2019s betraying to the audience that he\u2019s my age or older, and let\u2019s be honest we\u2019re probably the only people who would be checking for a Kid Capri rap album at this point. Let me rephrase that \u2013 a Kid Capri RAPPING album. He could drop a mixtape today as fire as anything he did in the 1990\u2019s just by linking up with the hottest bar spitters signed and unsigned and letting everybody get their shit in like a tornado tag lucha libre match. He could even sneak in one of his own original songs and we\u2019d let that shit slide. Songs like \u201cHandsome Woman\u201d commit the cardinal sin of being boring though \u2014 and I think he\u2019s trying to be pro-LBGTQIA, \u201cthink\u201d being the operative word. The jokes he throws in about \u201ctearing that ass up\u201d make me question his sincerity; that\u2019s not a problem since the beat and his delivery are so boring you won\u2019t listen to this song twice.<\/p>\n

And if it didn\u2019t already feel like he was pandering to various demographics on the album, \u201cKaren Why You Caring\u201d really is the nail in the coffin. Once again it\u2019s not that I disagree with his message. I\u2019m tired of rich entitled white people who get easily offended when they don\u2019t get everything their way. This is such low hanging fruit though, and I don\u2019t know who produced the beat (I\u2019m hoping it wasn\u2019t self-produced), but they didn\u2019t give David Love any inspiration to come with better bars. If he had made it a funny Redman style song clowning on a Karen for her bad behavior it might have worked. This doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I suppose this is the irony of having \u201cKid\u201d in your name when you\u2019re pushing up to retirement age. I feel you Capri, it\u2019s not easy getting older when rap is a young man\/woman\/person\u2019s game. I respect your desire to be creative and stay relevant. I\u2019m not telling you to hang it up as a deejay OR as an emcee. I\u2019m just saying you need some better topics, better beats, and don\u2019t be afraid to use a ghostwriter if your shit ain\u2019t popping. It\u2019s obvious you can flow so if the verbiage is right I\u2019m not going to judge you harshly for not penning it yourself. Calvin Broadus<\/a> ain\u2019t a spring chicken either and he got a pass for it. In fact he might be the best example of how to make music as an aging rap veteran. There\u2019s other things he doesn\u2019t get a pass for, but we ain\u2019t got time to get into that here, so let\u2019s just say that you sir have not cast your lot with any politicians that would bring shame on your world famous name. Keep on rocking in the free world Kid Capri, I got your back. This album is a hard pass though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s strange to talk about Kid Capri as a rapper. He\u2019s certainly got credentials in the rap game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-33202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}