Comments by "terrytees" (@terrytees) on "Exposing Hip Hop's Original Industry Plants...kinda" video.
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They weren't industry plants, there had an organic buzz by 87, they had respected hot records there were active on the underground hip-hop scene in the mid 80's and known by all they frequented union square and Latin quarters. You should ask historian that were there at the time. Talk to Paradise, Claude Gray. Lets get this straight as you were clearly not in the New York Club scene in the mid 80's.
At first It was songs that went over in the Clubs well that had all the momentum, sure Rakim is a far better MC than Kid n Play as well as most rappers but Eric b and Rakim's appeal was different, as said it was about clubs and sorry to burst your bubble but the R didn't go down that well at Latin Quarters, groups like UltraMagnetic dominated those Clubs, the R is just to laid back for the club scene at that time, his success came from an introspective audience which is why artists like that have the longevity the do.
As for Kid n Play I can name more than 4 songs as anyone with a decent collection of 80's hip-hop can but to be fair I just have to name the songs that rocked the clubs and most artists barley have one of those but Kid n Play had at least two with Last Night and Gittin Funky. Look there producer was Hurby Luv Bug, he dominated mainstream successful artists at the time, look at his catalogue.
By the reasoning you have given for these guys to be plants you could accuse Biz Markie of being a plant, this is basic and lazy writing by you all for the click bait.
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