Other acts lined up include veteran rapper Big Daddy Kane and country star Keith Urban.

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They join previously announced crowd pleasers: Anthony David, Big Daddy Kane, Bridget Kelly, Blackstreet, Jody Watley and Mint Condition.

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Big Daddy Kane, Rakim and Kool G Rap, all 44, were game changers, trailblazers even, but their catalogs get thinner the deeper you move into the '90s.

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Stephen Baldwin gives the liveliest performance as the sole white person in the posse (which also includes Tone Loc, Big Daddy Kane, Charles Lane, and Tiny Lister, Jr.).

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