5:05 - “Put that Ba Diddy Ba bullshit on hold” Russell be having me weak, mans is so blunt 😂

The heckler was Grandmaster Caz

I wish I was around this time, 80’s in New York, hip hop coming up breakdancing on street corners and subways, graffiti on the trains and all. What a great era!

And they’re still friends… Much respect to the Icons of Hip Hop🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

I know it’s historical and important and all that... but anyone else find Busy Bee hilarious? “Somebody say yeah you’s a sucka!” “I’m knockin out all bums!”

I was only 2 years old when this rap battle took place. I am glad we now have the internet to inform us of anything we are interested in etc.

6:00 "I HEARD WHAT YOU DID TO BUSY BEE!!!" 😂😂🤣

THE BIRTH OF BARZ!!!!!!

Busy Bee was the Gucci Mane of the 80's.

its kool moe dee not kool moe doe!

Mod Def can definitely play Busy Bee for a HipHop movie 😳

Listen to the whole battle. Busy Bee rocked the house! But Moe attacked him like a bear. It's pound for pound the best diss track ever

When you draw a list of most influential rappers I always start with Melle Mel and Furious Five and Kool Moe Dee. That's the foundation right there.

To be honest i think it would have been better if busy bee's style of rap would be popular today not mumble rap

Yep! November 30th 1981 the first rap battle in hip hop history

For the record, the beat is a loop from the treacherous threes' feel the heartbeat instrumental around 50 seconds in

Kool Moe Dee looks younger than he did in 1981!

Bobbbbb bibbbyy de-bobbbb dang a danggg diggieee diggieee 😭

Busy Bee seems like a nice chap. Obviously Moe Dee is a god, but it's nice it all ended amicably

Look kids, no one got shot.

Mos Def would be perfect to play chief rocka in a movie

2022! We are still here. We lived during the birth of Hip Hop. Harlem World was blocks from were I was raised. Grant Residences. 125th. If you are a 60's & early 70's baby you lived during this special time in history. But those who didn't you are living your own history in Hip Hop and many older Kats would trade your youth for their age. They will never admit it. You are living were Kendrick Lamar has won a Pulitzer Prize which is only the second musician to ever win and first ever in Hip Hop. (If you don't know you just don't know). J Cole, Ed Sweet Shirt, Roddy Ricch, Tyler, the Creator, Denzel Curry, Cordae, Joey Badass, Baby Keem, Jack Harlow, Rapsody, Ill Camille, Dreezy and Noname. (No Mumble rappers not included because we listen to lyrical gifted rappers) Respectfully!

This wasn’t really a battle, it was just an attack. It would be a battle if Busy Bee had the opportunity to reply🤔.

Mos Def Can Play Busy Bee In A Movie. 💯

When the man says "20 years ago" and the video is from the time South Pole and Nautica was drip

"Every body say Yeah you's a sucker " that line is so damn funny. I could laugh for days. I wish I was there. I was in elementary school living in Atlanta when that came out.

Beautiful history

true emcees......Ogs too..both of these men

If only they knew that mumble rap would take over hip hop.

beef between kool moe dee vs busy bee from 1981...

They both are legends

I love Busy Bee in Wild Style. He has a great song that was on Sugarhill called “Busy Bee’s Groove.” He is really fun. That being said, Moe Dee is a BEAST I love that these two cats were and are friends

Damn I didnt know 2chainz dad was a rapper too lol

Legendary

Classic hip-hop right there.

I wish Kool Moe Dee would challenge the Rappers of these recent years or mumbling slow rappers. I don't know what to call it but all these different colored dreads or hair, tattoo, tight pants, dress wearing youngsters to a "BATTLE" with meaningful substance wit and jamming beat. Just the rappers since the middle of 2013 up to today's date. Trust in a line or day after day I don't know but I know I would love to hear Kool Moe Dee talk about how everybody is wrapping the same whack Style

Lil Yachty should remix Kool Mo Dee diss record.

Real hip hop

Ba diddy ba is back in the form of these mumble rappers

Busy Bee reminds me of Mos Def. 😭💀

Moe dee is my role model, he has the best styles along with Kool Keith

The one with Busy Bee vs Roxanne Shante was good and funny!!

It's real hip hip they had fun

That’s why battels was Born

Always been two sides the throw ya hands 🙌 in the air And just raw lyrics

good shit 🔥🔥🤙🏽

This made me laugh a lot

Young busy bee looks like mos def lol

@ 2:07 ........ Was that a young BOBBY BROWN walking down the Hallway with BUSY BEE ?? LOL

Kool Moe Dee 🎶 🎵 Changed the Game for Me as a Listener..Phukkn Phenomenal

They skipped the best part where Moe Dee and LA went back and forth with the speed rap. Legendary 💩🙌

I just got finished listening to the battle.

Grand Master Caz is to Hip Hop as TK Kirkland is to Comedy 🏆😂

Just think 🤔, Kool Moe Dee took out Busy Bee 🐝 Starsky and LL Cool J 😎 in different eras.

For the life of me, I don't know why they are interviewing this rapper iced T, he is not from New York City, he is from California

Kool Moe Dee the first battle rapper that would kill Eminem

Moe Dee Rock the house for all time. No one better.

Did Kool Moe Dee have pre-written lyrics specifically for Busy Bee or he freestyled from the top of his head? Its curious because he referred to things Busy Bee had said in his performance.

And if you dont know, now you know...

Kool Moe Dee clearly says "the battle with Busy Bee was spontaneous. It wasn't planned", but it's debated among hip hop fans whether Moe Dee was freestyling or wrote the lyrics in advance. I don't see how he could have planned it, because Busy Bee said they were friends before the battle, so why would Moe Dee prepare a diss for his own friend? Seems like it just happened in the heat of the moment

No surprise attack No dumb shit Capiche? Por favor Merci

If there's ever any fictionalized version of a movie with Busy Bee in it Mos Def is automatically cast 😆

Hip hop

Any one from 2020

If HIP HOP STARTED IN THE BRONX….How was KRS1 a Graffiti kid in Brooklyn if YALL say HIP HOP WAS ONLY DONE IN THE BRONX????

0:30 which street is it? Which crossroad

Is Kool Moe's Dee the godfather of diss rap?

Beat at 1:13 ?

Star ski

Kool Moe Dee 💪🏾

DAM!😂😂

Kool moe dee was that nigga bro

6:08 -6:12 inspired a future foe? Uncle L (Jingling Baby)

Mos Def granddaddy/ busy bee

6:33 🤣

Скиллз спасибо тебе

Who win the battle...busy bee or Kool Moe???

Tupac and Biggie should've learned from them about making peace.

Why Mos Def looking just Busy Bee

That was bullshit. Busy Bee didn't know he was going to do that. That wasn't a battle, it was a sucker-punch.

Dee!

Was that Keith Sweat?!!

so was that what you called an authentic "freestyle" that Kool Mo Dee because he said that none of that was rehearsed or planned....now fast fwd to today, you got artists going to the radio station busting a so called "freestyle" only to be spitting something they written down and remembered or they reciting what they wrote from their phone as they flo......hmmmm......

This wasn't a battle.

So one-sided

It's funny when you hear ppl tell a story,like they really know,but really wasnt there. So you have many MANY ppl on here stating what they've heard from other ppl,who may or may not have been there. Stating it like its coming from their memory of actually being there. LMMMFFFAAAOOO this cracks me up (ice t and MANY others on youtube) trolling..

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