Kenny Parker: 'Nobody Beats The Biz' Was an Answer to The Brothers And Scott La Rock
Boogie Down Productions producer, DJ and brother of KRS-One, Kenny Parker, revealed earlier this week on his YouTube channel that the classic Big Daddy Kane penned "Nobody Beats The Biz" was actually an answer record.
He explained that Boogie Down Productions' infamous "The Bridge Is Over" spared Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap because they weren't confirmed Juice Crew members at the time. However, Parker revealed that Biz wasn't mentioned in the bridge wars for a different reason.
"Kris told me, and I've heard him say in interviews that his friendship with Biz was why he didn't diss him in 'The Bridge Is Over,'" he said. "He said that he'd never disrespect Biz Markie because they were friends, and until this day he's never involved Biz Markie in any disrespect."
Kenny Parker says that KRS and Biz's friendship predated "South Bronx" and the beginning of the Bridge Wars, but that Boogie Down Productions leader, the late Dj Scott La Rock, didn't share KRS' sentiments.
"Scott was goin' at everybody, he didn't care; business was business," Kenny remembered. "In 1987, not long after 'The Bridge Is Over,' Scott recruited two brothers from the Bronx named Narkim and Akiem. One was an MC, and one was a human beatbox, and Scott took them in the studio and they recorded 'You Can't Win' [as The Brothers] and it came out on B-Boy records. It was a diss to Biz Markie."
Kenny revealed that the record didn't make much noise, but Biz did hear it. "Once I met Biz and we became friends, I asked him about the record," he said. "I asked if he heard the record with Narkim and Akiem and he said, 'Yeah I heard it, and I went to the studio and made an answer called 'Nobody Beats The Biz.'"
Kenny says that the record didn't cause any problems in the relationships between Biz, Scott, and the Parkers. Check out "You Can't Win" above.
