There's absolutely nothing like summer in Brooklyn, New York.

There's this rhythm to it, a cultural syncopation that just doesn't seem to exist anywhere else.

From Bedstuy to Brownfield, Fort Green to East New York, Crown Heights to Coney Island,

this rhythm is familiar.

And even though COVID-19 continues to cramp life on the city streets this summer, and

Black Brooklyn is well, less Black these days.

The unmistakable soundtrack of the Brooklyn that many of us know and love is still hip-hop.

Hip-hop as we know it might have been born in the Boogie Down Bronx, but some of its greatest

MCs came out of Brooklyn.

Rappers like Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, MC Light, and Little Kim, most deaf and telep quality,

and of course, one of modern rap's architects, Big Daddy Kane.

As an MC just beginning in 1982, everything I knew about rapping, I had learned from Brooklyn.

I'm Tremaine Lee, and this is Into America.

Today on the show, I sat down with none other than Big Daddy Kane himself, who is returning

to Brooklyn for a concert to close out summer.

We talked about the evolution of rap music, the soon-to-open universal hip-hop museum

in New York City, and the culture that birthed America's most popular art form.

I caught up with Kane while he was in his home studio in North Carolina.

Peace, good brother.

How you feeling today?

I'm great.

I want to first give a shout out to my big brother, O, who put me onto your music when I was

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