Mainstream status for hip-hop’s highness Mica Swain was indelible and has been in the making for several years. At the tender age on nine, the North Carolina native was spitting rhymes mimicking her idols Big Daddy Kane and M.C. Lyte. Hoping to emulate the power of these two pioneers would be wishful thinking to any novice rapper, but Big Daddy Kane enlisted the young hopeful to grace the stage with him and eventually became her mentor. “Big Daddy Kane groomed me and took me under his wing to witness the business and artist side of being on tour,” she stated when asked about her relationship with the Brooklyn rapper. “Kane pulls me on his set and lets me spit a 16 or we will do a song or two together. (via myspace.com/micaswain)
