Oct 14, 2018
Cold Crush Brothers VS Fantastic Romantic Five Live @ Harlem World 7/3/1981
Legendary MC battle between Cold Crush and The Fantastic Five, which was controversially won on the night by Fantastic Five but afterwards when the tapes of the battle started to circulate it became apparent to most that Cold Crush actually killed it and should have really won.
Listening feverishly to this tape at the time, amongst many many others, was a young upcoming MC called Darryl McDaniels who would go on to be known as D.M.C. You can hear the influence to Run-D.M.C on this battle tape. McDaniels has stated that initially he started out MCing by literally mimicking this tape.
