A Quote by Big Daddy Kane

When I came up with KRS-One and Rakim, everybody had to step their lyrical game up to build a fan base.

Big Daddy Kane

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Base Build Came Everybody Fan Fan Base Game Had Lyrical Step Up

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Big Daddy Kane
American - Rapper
Born: September 10, 1968

I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.

Madonna Ciccone

I came up in the '80s and '90s - there was no engagement with the fan base.

Dante Basco

There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

Andy Roddick

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

I was listening to Chuck D, KRS, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, all the greats, studying them.

MC Ren

For a long time, we just played here - Columbus is a perfect place to work your way up and maybe build a fan base.

Tyler Joseph

Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors don't have a fan base that just follows them around. With musicians, the fan base just goes everywhere they go.

Troy Carter

I want a long-lasting career. I want to build up a fan base that will come to my shows and love me no matter if I have a song on the radio or not.

Aubrie Sellers

I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.

Whit Stillman

The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent. Basically, you do all the work for years, blowing up an artist - you discover them, blow them up, you build their fan base. And then that artist is like, "Okay, now I'm here. Now I want more. I want to be bigger." And you're either going to be able to accommodate them, you're going to be able to figure out how to take that step with them, or you're going to lose them.

El-P

You're moving a franchise. You're leaving one city and going to another, which is difficult from a fan standpoint, from a fan-base standpoint, but you have to take care of the detail things. As you go through that step-by-step process, from my standpoint, my job is to keep in mind the player needs.

Jeff Fisher

Lil Wayne, I ain't mad at him man, he did his thing, he stepped up his lyrical game, he the most improved rapper out of anybody. I've seen him from childhood status to what he's doing right now. He stepped up his rap game, so he deserves the success he had. And no one else was even doing near what he was doing, so I applaud him too.

DJ Premier

You can't just give up because you lose one game. India has always had the problem that when faced with the crunch matches, the team does not necessarily step up.

Mithali Raj

I grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, so in Iowa, we didn't have a pro sports team, so it was all about the Hawks, and everybody was a Hawkeyes fan, and everybody had their black and gold and had something Hawkeye related.

Kurt Warner

I'm so honored that there are people, peers, that I'm inspired by and looked up to for years and actually want me to do my thing with them. It's quite the honor, and it's been wonderful to see everybody's fan base kind of melting together.