(For the record, Shan has acknowledged the South Bronx as rightfully deserving the distinction, but the dispute has evolved into an argument over who is the better emcee.) Fortuitously, KRS-One had released a diss rap, “Still Huggin A Nut (SHAN),” on April 8, the date of his Greensboro show, and he elucidated on the topic for the audience. Still unsatisfied with the sound, the emcee informed the DJ that he would be performing a capella, and launched into a freestyle about his 30-year-old feud with MC Shan over whether hip hop originated in the South Bronx or Queensbridge. Then he blazed through “Stop the Violence” and the “Sound of Da Police,” with the crowd gleefully filling in the sound effect “whoop whoop” on the latter. I got that.” Then he walked over to the DJ rig and started twisting knobs as the hapless DJ looked on with mortification. “I just walked in and I didn’t even do a soundcheck,” he declared. From that point forward, KRS-One proved himself every bit the mercurial performer determined to give his fans the most intimate, electrifying experience of their lives, whatever the limitations of the venue - a wedding hall sharing a block with a firearms store and storefront holiness church - and the production crew.
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