Legendary Rapper Percee P Ready To ‘Crush’ The Mic Again
The path to South Bronx rapper Percee P’s 2007 debut is one forged over three decades in the rap game, writes Dan Rule.
IT’S 1973, maybe ‘74, summertime, and a four-year-old John Percy Simon is sitting by his open bedroom window, high atop the Patterson Housing Projects in South Bronx. A warm breeze flits through the window, carrying voices and music — pulsing, kinetic beat repetitions, soul and funk charged instrumentals looping back around and around to the same energy-charged starting point.
Little does he know he is witnessing the beginnings of something far bigger than any of its pioneering Bronx proponents — DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa, to name a few — could have ever imagined.
Now 38 years old, the man behind the 28-year-long street-level myth that is MC Percee P says the memory is as fresh as ever.
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