Queens rhyme-stacker Kool G Rap has never been in the Top 40 – unless you count the boisterous two syllables of "Poison" sampled on the Bell Biv DeVoe New Jack Swing classic – but his rap style has an influence greater than any metric could show. Coming up with the Queens-based Juice Crew collective in the late Eighties alongside artists like Biz Markie, Roxanne Shanté and Big Daddy Kane, G
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kool G Rap on the Highly Technical Rap Style That Influenced Generations