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After a series of introductions, Stack ended up on the radar of an up-and-coming rapper from Chicago named Lupe Fiasco. Somehow, miraculously, it worked, and Flex referred the teen to a rep from Epic Records. So he did what NYC rappers did in those days in order to get put on: He waited outside of radio station Hot 97 in order to get the attention of Funkmaster Flex. Stack, while still young-just about 18-was incredibly ambitious. He was an animal, he was hungry, and he just wanted to succeed at being an emcee and being a superstar rapper.” I could be the first guy out of Far Rockaway to put the neighborhood on the map,’” Sky remembers. “He knew, ‘This could really happen, I could really become that guy. Even back then, Sky noticed his new friend’s ambition, and how tied it was to his neighborhood. It was during this period, circa 1999, that Stack worked in a crew called GRITS, short for “Greatest Rappers in the Streets.” Another member of the crew was the well-regarded Brooklyn rapper Skyzoo.
We put some songs together, and then we was on our whole thing like Kobe and Shaq. And then my man was like, ‘Rayquon rapping.’ I’m like, ‘What?’ He came to my crib one day, and he was freestyling for me, and then we went and bought a four-track recorder. “I was still playing ball, but I got into making music also. When Bynoe reconnected with his middle school pal, he was amazed. So Elliott decided to give it a shot himself. While there, he would meet a number of aspiring rappers, including a young Lloyd Banks. He appeared in the videos for Busta Rhymes’ “ Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” (“He’s in the third row, where they have the African masks on,” Bynoe says) and 702’s “ Where My Girls At.” But it was a change of venue that would move Elliott from dancing in rap videos to making music himself.īynoe explains that a key moment for Elliott came when he got kicked out of Far Rockaway High School, and started attending August Martin, in Queens’ South Jamaica neighborhood. It was only a few years later, in his early teens, that Elliott’s dancing moved him into some pretty big places. was dancing, and I was playing basketball.” We started talking and kicking it in seventh grade. “I used to see him around the neighborhood when I’d go to my aunt’s house when we was younger, but I never spoke to him. “I met Stack in junior high school, probably seventh grade,” Bynoe tells me. That’s when he first met the rapper Bynoe, who would later join Stack in the crew Riot Squad. By the time he was in seventh grade, Elliott was way into dancing. To make sense of why Rayquon Elliott’s clever, flashy, funny, and shockingly ahead-of-his-time music lives on more than ten years after he passed, you have to look at his very beginnings. While his full-length record still isn't here, his continued impact on hip-hop is as clear as day-if you know where to look.
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That came and went, and it appears that the full artistic statement we never got during Stack's life is still in limbo. Last year, his long-awaited debut album, The Rock's Star, was announced with a fall release date. He was a star in the making and we’ll never know what he could have achieved had his life not been cut short.Ī full decade after his death at 24, his legacy is still in flux. To casual listeners, if they knew him at all, he was familiar for his appearance on the Jim Jones/Lil Wayne collaboration “ Weatherman.”īut to die-hards, the type of person to scour the tracklist on the latest DJ Clue tape to determine who was in and who was out-and, even more, to the people in Far Rockaway-Stack was a revelation. Rayquon Elliott, best known to fans as Stack Bundles, hadn’t yet released an album. Murder was not unusual in Redfern-the New York Times described the development as being in the midst of “a private war.” But this killing would have resonance far beyond the building, and well past that sad morning. In the early morning hours of June 11, 2007, an up-and-coming rapper was shot and killed in the lobby of his building in the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway, Queens. “We took losses that never, ever happened in hip-hop history.” - Cau2Gs I’m the Nas, Shan, whatever you want to call me.
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