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Published on November 15th, 2016 | by Natesha Folkes

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Big Daddy Kane Honored at The Long Island Music Hall of Fame

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The Long Island Music Hall of Fame recently held their highly anticipated 2016 induction ceremony on October 11th at The Space at Westbury.

The night was a whirlwind of musical entertainment, with performances with some of the nights very own inductees. Some of the honorees inducted at this year’s award ceremony included Charles Koppelman, Steve Vai, Garland Jeffreys, Carter Burwell, Big Daddy Kane, Santo & Johnny, Vince Giordano, Westbury Music Fair, Jim Steinman, the late Sandy Pearlman. The legendary Steven Van Zandt also received the 2016 Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award for his Rock and Roll Forever Foundation and his dedication to music education.

As part of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame tradition, each honoree of the night had the opportunity to sign a guitar after accepting their awards.fa7g6099-m

Big Daddy Kane, who was also honored, was excited to be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. “I think it’s an honor, it’s great” said Kane. “Being a person from Brooklyn… Long Island showed a lot of love especially since I got my break from another Long Island artist, Biz Markie.”

All of the inductees had their very own presenter, special to them in their own way. Chuck D, of the group Public Enemy, presented Big Daddy Kane’s award.

Kane said he met Chuck D in the industry, they toured together and have collaborated on many projects.

“We’ve always been friends throughout the years, and we’ll get on the phone and talk for about an hour and a half about society and music and getting old.” said Kane

Kane expressed that although a lot of things have changed in Hip Hop, the ‘party’ feel is the same. “That’s something that is still strong, people still love to dance and hear that song and go ‘Oh that’s that sh**”

Hip Hop comes with a uniqueness and an array of different styles, Kane said that he enjoyed westcoast, southern, and east coast hip hop. “It’s something that I enjoyed seeing, like how different regions approached that form of music” said Kane “They all added their own different swag to hip hop”.

Kane says he’s happy to see the younger generation finding so much success in music, but he feels that a lot of artists have lost creative control. “Now, you have execs that grew up in hip hop and they’re calling the shots saying ‘no, we need an artist to do this, we need you to make a song like this’” said Kane “What ends up happening is, you turn your radio on and you hear one 24 hour song because it all starts sounding the same and it becomes a trend and every artist who follows and falls in with that trend fades and as it fades. They fade because they never gave anybody anything organic.”

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