A: Andre the Giant
(Q: What sports icon inspired underground rapper A.G.’s ironic name?)
Andre the Giant has a posse and its name is Diggin’ In Tha Crates (DITC).
By any measure, Diggin in the Crates is a heavyweight crew. DITC was one of the few Golden Era collectives that managed to straddle the increasingly separate underground and commercial hip-hop scenes with some success. With its fingerprints on rap classics like Low End Theory, The Chronic, and Ready To Die, as well as pop hits like Fatboy Slim’s “Rockefeller Skank” DITC’s relevance endured even as New York-style boom-bap rap faded in popularity.
Comprised of supersized characters like Lord Finesse, Big Pun, Fat Joe, Diamond D, and Buckwild, DITC was never a place for the meek. So naturally, its smallest members – the late Big L and Showbiz’s partner in rhyme, A.G. – chose puffed-up aliases to keep up with their comrades. In A.G.’s case, the inspiration was the freakishly large wrestling hero and pop art icon, Andre the Giant.
Showbiz & A.G. “The Next Level”
For more great trivia anytime on your mobile phone go to Name That Music Video!
0 Responses to “Little Big Man”