JayQuan you deserve all the credit for the way you laid the foundation for these documentaries, precise and factual, your vocal delivery keeps they listener engaged.

Definitely love this one too, Busy Bee, one of my favorite old school rappers

that battle was dope! the very next day everybody was talking about it..i was 13 years old and finally got a copy of the tape in the middle of January 1982 for 5 bucks & dubbed it & made a whole lot of 5 bucks..lol ...bought my first pair of suede pumas.. actually I sold copies of the tape in brooklyn until africa islam played it on the radio..then everybody had it..lol...those were the dayz!!!!!

Favorite channel by far. So comprehensive.

Your channel needs to be a Netflix series!

Don't sell these videos. Rather, partner with a network to showcase these great videos to a larger audience. Keep your ownership and make sure to look out financially for these legends.

I want to add ,, i use to go to the blackdoor which was PAL on wedster and saw funky four and they did there routines live before even thinking about records so it was even better seeing it without studio

this is the best channel on KZfaq

In my top 50 of all time.

I'm proud to say that I bought both of his albums and they both were banging

Jayquan dope as usual and always on point>> somebody get this man a deal Him and Troy L Smith would be Unstoppable with all our History out there that needs to be told...

Thank you for this mini hip hop history lesson! Busy Bee was 1 of my favorite MC's back then & he certainly could rock the house live & in person like KRS-1 too.. Wild Style is 1 of my favorite hip hop movies that I own.

I stopped messing with hiphop in the mid 90s. Then I saw Busy Bee in Wild Style and that first Beef documentary. He brung me back to hip-hop. Always happy and smiling and rockin the crowd!! He made hip-hop fun for me again.

great video man we as hip hop heads really should start to respect the pioneers and the forefathers of hip hop more often now than before especially in this current generation.

VALLEY PARK! Yo!

THIS IS A GREAT CHANNEL

Jay you've got one of the BEST channels running on the Tube (period) /PEACE

Busy Bee Suicide was one of my favorite songs from way way back.

AWESOME CHANNEL

great work. I was a big fan of busy bee when he was young. You failed to mentioned that he was a pure rapper before he started doing crowd pleasing style to get the party active. when with the L brothers ,for example the tape that's on you tube l brothers battle herculean, when he raps on apache. But also why he left leg brothers for good and that's because he wanted to be the head liner or make the decisions according to the master rob words.

One thing about the name "Starski" that IMHO should be mentioned is that it could have been popular because of the famous cop series Starsky & Hutch in the late 70s/early 80s. It was the ultimate urban cops & robbers show (shown in syndication on NYC Channel 5). It had a funky disco theme and soundtrack, violence, Starski (who everyone wanted to be) was the undercover cop who were tracksuits and sneakers while Hutch was more buttoned up conservative. It was the ultimate pseudo blacksploitation crime show and we loved it! In the schoolyard we kids always role played an episode of the show, and everyone wanted to be Starski (not Hutch). So I think the name Starski came from it?

He was a true Master of Ceremony

Seeing the difference in clothing styles when they were younger, it wasn't just baseball caps, far beyond that.

Thank You

Respect to Chief Rocker BusyBee

Ok, don't know why folks do this but here we go. Busy Bee was not solo. The first time I saw his name on a flyer he rocked with a dude named Hutch Hutch. Of course they were Starsky and Hutch. They didn't last at all. His record that he rocked most, Scratching. Before scratching was even an art form in the genre. For me when he rocked with the L Brothers is on underground street level when he was at his best. That ambush at Harlem World was just that. I never could fully rock with Kool Moe Dee after that.

I love when busy bee went against kool moe d and got roasted.

Saw the L.Brothers Back in Nov '78 @JHS 123 GW Theodore did his thing Master Rob Had The Rhymes Kevie Kev Was Ill And Busy Bee Was that MC We All wanted to sound like

Nice video but you shouldve taking it all the way back to cedar park days and when his rap style was different in the 70s with the L Brothers he was the main rappers for the group and later changed his style of rap

LOVE BUSY BEE.

Someone mentioned netflix that u should contact and that is so true. Tgey did a ducumentary on roxanne shanti and it did good so imagine you going deeper earlier years than roxanne and talking and having video on most popular Djs and mcs from 70s and 80s....

Well made! Props!

I was trying to find your website but I couldn't find it. I consider myself a hip-hop historian but you're on another level great job💯👍 but I want to ask a question. Did Busy Bee feature on the Bad Boys featuring K-Love single with the Inspector Gadget sound? It sounded just like Busy Bee he said his name was busy bee put on a video that wasn't Chief rocker Starsky Busy Bee.

this is dope. thanks!

Great work! Wasn't the biggest fan but i did like "The Godfather"

I had that cassette Running Thangs by Busy Bee.

I may have missed it, but I don't remember you mentioning "Get Busy", which came out as a single before "Suicide". "'Cause I'm faster than lightning, I'm louder than thunder/the high-powered, cold crushin' super boy wonder!"

Thankyou for this

much respect

#cosign🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿

why is the music soo low? the rest of your vids levels are fine. Busy is my good friend and a mentor of mine. I need you to fix these levels man please.. He is already underrated enough.

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So would this technically make Busy Bee the 1st clique hopper in hiphop history?

Cheif rocka

Suicide was my jam.

j would you speak on mc lyte

at 8:51 you say about Suicide, Grandmaster Melle Mel on the pen.. are you sayin Melle wrote it??

Busy bee show had got money off wildstyle n biwould had sued them for getting him played like that against Kool Moe dee smh

First solo MC? Before Kurtis Blow? 😄

What instrumental is that playing at the 5:00 mark?

How could you miss live at the fever? That was a big hit

Wonder if Busy Bee was molested by Bambatta too

Man and you ain't even from NY I don't think. You definitely should take the previous advice and sell these

Ima have to say spoonie gee blessed the track better on spoonies back. Suicide and running things was my chit

As dope of a song as "Suicide" is, it may qualify as the first ever mumble rap song.