YOU'D BE SUPRISED. CATS LIKE KOOL MOE D, LL COOL J WERE THE REAL RHYME SPITTERS AT THAT TIME ALONG WITH A FEW OTHERS. BACK THEN WE MOSTLY HAD PUNCHLINES AND METAPHORS. WE WOULD SAY SHIT LIKE "I'M NUMBER ONE, LIKE THE COSBY SHOW" OR "I'M FRESH JUST LIKE DOUGHNUTS, I ROCK THE MIC AND PEOPLE GO NUTS"... "I'M SLICK JUST LIKE OIL, CRUSHIN EMCEE'S LIKE ALUMINUM FOIL" SHIT LIKE THAT... IT WAS A SIMPLER TIME BUT IT A GREAT TIME TO BE AN EMCEE. I'M FROM THE BAY BUT WAS INFLUENCED BY ALL THE NEW YORK EMCEE'S JUST LIKE MOST EVERYONE ELSE. I DROPPED MY FIRST DEMO ON CASSETTE IN 83 AND TRUST ME MOST OF US WERE TRASH BACK THEN WITH NO IDEA OF WHAT WE WERE DOIN, BUT BY 85 WHEN I DROPPED MY FIRST RECORD WITH MIKE MOSLEY, WE WERE ON OUR WAY