One thing there’s no shortage of on social media is hip hop accounts. Enter Hip Hop’s biggest fan - his YouTube channel ain’t just for anybody. But it is for “hoodlums, hooligans, knuckleheads, players and pimps, slayers and simps, hoes and freaks, nerds and geeks, strippers and tippers, thugs and gorillas, soldiers and kings, goddesses and queens…!” If nothing else Reggie Crawford is entertaining, enthusiastic and hilarious. He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and shares that his inspiration for starting his own hip-hop channel came from conversations had almost everyday with friends and family about Hip-Hop in all its aspects from old school to the new and now. Read more below of our interview:
Thanks for joining us - we really enjoy the content on your channel. It seems that you mix your appreciation of hip-hop with life stories and lessons. What lessons have you learned that you’d like to share with our audience?
Be honest with people and most importantly yourself at all times even when it’s not what someone wants to hear. I also believe staying positive regardless of any situation is important. We are what we think, say and do - it has a true impact on your life. Life is what you make it and karma is real, karma doesn’t forget.
Besides your charismatic personality and infectious laugh, what else would you say sets your channel apart?
I did NOT want to focus on gossip and trending topics! There are enough people doing that I want to DO ME & what interests me. Being from Baltimore I have an unbiased taste for Hip-Hop I love it all North,South, East, West and All in between.
You know we have to ask - who are your top 3 emcees?
My hands down #1 is Tupac Amaru Shakur for his content, passion, originality, messages and diversity as an artist. He did a lot in in matter of 5 to 6 years all while constantly fighting charges and court cases. As I’m older now looking at what he was dealing with as a Young Black male in his early 20s it’s Extremely Impressive. His acting ability to me hadn’t even truly peaked as well as his music. That fact that he has more posthumous albums which 3 are double albums speaks to his work ethic.
#2 Ice Cube for his originality as 1 of the Forefathers for West Coast Hip-Hop. As well his message, content, his pen pretty much creating Eazy E as a MC and being one of the first rappers from California to work with New York producers and artists. His growth from actor to producer of film and tv and now sports with the Big 3. All while as he’s been demonstrating in these times of 2020 NEVER CHANGING his original principles he rapped back with NWA 30 plus years later. F_ck The Police is in my conversation for Greatest Hip Hops song ever before now, regardless of all that we see now because we all can record police brutality, that song came even before the Rodney King beating. He is still releasing albums and has made films like Are we there Yet? make you forget that her did ‘F_ck The Police’. The Barbershop Trilogy based in Chicago he did a movie that was based on Baltimore and even was XXX. O’Shea Jackson is THE SUPER OG.
#3 Jay- Z he was around for years before he finally got a deal but even with that said he and his partners created their own label. They marketed and branded their Hip-Hop Lifestyle and the Culture to their full advantage with Rocawear clothing, Armadale vodka, film and Influences to put on so many artists like Kanye. His business acumen is whimsically extraordinary from all the branches of RocNation to acquiring Tidal which has the second best payout per stream to his greatest business decision Marrying Beyoncé the Greatest artist in the beginning of the new millennium early 2000s. Shawn Carter is the Don Dada Godfather of Hip-Hop at this very moment. He Moves whatever he wants with that Midas Touch so to speak. He’s so strategic it’s scary and motivational, as well as Inspirational.
Great list! You recently interviewed Cappadona from the Wu-Tang Clan. How did that come about and what did you come away thinking and feeling?
What I thought and felt coming out of the Cappadonna interview is grateful & thankful that I have a friendship based off of a relationship that started on the internet with Gully TV that was new to me and I was skeptical of because I’m old school and don’t trust the internet at all. But he is someone that wanted to help my platform based on an Instagram post that was regular to me, but he told me to take this Hip-Hops Biggest Fan thing seriously as well as my wife & a few friends SO I DID. I knew from the beginning that I am worthy of interviewing A-List artists because I’m so Hip-Hop Word To My Father I may be a fan, but I live this Hip-Hop it’s who I am from head to toe! I know I deserve a top spot in the realm of Hip-Hop conversations because unlike the bigger platforms, I’m not industry - I’m as authentic as it comes, no payola just organic love for hip-hop culture to WIN and OWN our products, blood, sweat and tears. HIP-HOP is BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY that MOVES THE WORLD!
You can catch Part 1 and Part 2 of Hip Hop’s Biggest Fan’s interview on his YouTube channel!
