@Regrann from @sonny_seeza - RIP Big Kap! 🙏 #Repost February 3, 2016 ► Today, unfortunately the hip-hop world lost another legendary player in the game. Big Kap, an important DJ in New York City's rap scene, has died. The news was first reported by Funkmaster Flex (@funkflex). He was 45 years old. The cause of death was a heart attack, as Kap's road manager Ab Traxx (@abtraxx) told Billboard. ► Big Kap was most known as a resident DJ alongside Funkmaster Flex at New York's legendary nightclub "The Tunnel" in the '90s. He was also a member of The Flip Squad and Big Dawg Pitbulls DJ crews. He also infamously DJed for the late The Notorious B.I.G. (1995). In 1999, Kap and Flex released "The Tunnel", a compilation album. More recently, DJ Big Kap was the host of Highly Unique Radio, an Internet radio station in Atlanta. He will be missed! R.I.P. Big Kap ► "The Tunnel" Nightclub was a club in NYC that was open from 1986 - 2001. The Tunnel was owned by Peter Gatien and was closed due to excessive violence. Streetfunk TV and Choke No Joke recorded the biggest names in Hip Hop every Sunday night at the club most people feared to enter. Funkmaster Flex was the promoter for this weekly event that went on for seven years (1994 - 2001). Some of the biggest names in Hip-Hop performed here from ONYX, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Puff Daddy, Ma$e, Nas, Method Man, Redman, Capone and Noreaga, Shyne, Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat and many more ► Words from the legendary Choke No Joke @realchokenojoke: "We had plans to screen "The Hip-Hop Nucleus" - the documentary on the legendary "The Tunnel" Nightclub next month for the SXSW after our successful event in Atlanta for the A3C. Now I'm going to have to do something in his honor" ► My video taken from unreleased documentary "The Hip-Hop Nucleus" [Produced and directed by Choke No Joke] - @fredro_starr, @iamstickyfingaz and @sonny_seeza on one stage with @bigkap in "The Tunnel" (1996) #RipBigKap #BigKap #TheFlipSquad #FunkmasterFlex #BigDawgPitbulls #TheNotoriousBIG #TheHipHopNucleus #StreetFunkTV #ChokeNoJoke #TheTunnel #ONYX #FredroStarr #StickyFingaz #SonnySeeza #Chyskillz ™@felixmontana87 #Regrann (at Atlanta, Georgia)
