Recognize this guy?
No? How about now?
That's Christopher "Kid" Reid with his partner, Christopher "Play" Martin, two hip-hoppers out of Queens, New York, who hit the big time in the '90s as a rap-comedy duo, making records, movies and even a Saturday morning cartoon. While Martin is a born-again Christian active on the praise circuit, Reid is looking to come back into popular music. His new song "Not the Father" is on the Heat From the Street mixtape, featured in this week's Wayward Son. Download a remix of the song below, and read more about Kid after the jump.
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Chris "Kid" Reid, "Not the Father" (V.I.C. remix) MP3
“Not the Father” was inspired by a recurring segment on the Maury Povich show, wherein male contestants are revealed either to be or not to be the father of their baby's (or some woman they slept with's) new baby. The contestant's reactions to Maury announcing "So and So, you are not the father," are often jubilant. Viz:
Kid's track is a meditation on mistaken paternal identity and the duplicitous women who benefit from it. Between verses like, If we had a baby, what would we name it? / I thought and it occurred to me/If he make it out that condom in the toilet / You better name him Hercules, Kid raps a series of ethnic-themed names a deadpan voice:
Daekwon, you are not the father / Dontrell, you are not the father / Biscuit, you are not the father.
Popping up on an underground mixtape is a low-profile way for a celebrity like Kid to make a comeback, but it’s a more credible way of creating buzz than, say, popping up on a reality show (Who Wants to Go to a Pajama Jammy Jam!?, maybe).
Besides, Kid’s got the underground creds.
"To feel like these younger or underground heads are gonna listen to what I’m doing, I think it’s great, I think it’s exciting,” Kid told me over the phone from Los Angeles last week.
“Believe it or not, there was a time way, way back in the days when Kid ‘n Play was an underground group," he says. "We had to have three singles to earn our first album, so we were an underground group at all the grimy clubs, doin’ what we had to do.”
It'll be interesting to see what the local scene makes of Kid's return.
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