A Love That's True Part 1 and Sittin' In My Car are my two favourite post-The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick songs by MC Ricky D precisely because they sound like they could be songs from The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick.
World Renown was the best song Slick Rick and Pete Rock recorded together during the sessions for Rick's Behind Bars album so of course that was the song which ended up getting shelved. Flippin' typical innit?
I hate to call Glorilla a One Song Wonder™ BUT everything she's dropped since FNF (Let's Go) has been so dour, so matter-of-fact and so completely lacking the zest which makes FNF (Let's Go) such a choon.
Or maybe Glorilla is the latest victim of Rap's cosmetic dentistry curse, wherein a rapper gets their teeth fixed and their music almost magically takes a dip in quality thereafter. Previous victims include Nas, King Louie, Gucci Mane, and Young Thug.
It's about time that Freeway & Peedi Crakk's Flipside is recognised and realised as one of the best singles of the Roc-A-Fella era. That song is a message in a bottle from State Property's peak, and pure electricity in a bottle which can make a corpse get up offa that thing and get on the good foot.
i believe in the dentistry curse
ReplyDeleteIt's as real as the Bad Boy curse 😬
ReplyDeletethe dentistry curse is real, also yeah who is a&r'ing glorilla's shit
ReplyDeleteYo Gotti since she's signed to him? She was way better with Hitkidd as her mentor.
ReplyDeleteYeah her EP was real bad. Still maintain that Tomorrow is a perfectly fine B-side to FNF.
ReplyDeleteIt's becoming more and more apparent that 2022 is Hitkidd's breakout year. Man's had an incredible year behind Duke Deuce, GloRilla and whatever the group behind Shabooyah's called.
So since Nas is part of the dentistry curse I’m not the only who hasn’t heard Kings Disease iii and probably never will?
ReplyDeleteBen, I haven't heard a Nas album since Life Is Good.
ReplyDeleteYohan, I call 'em The Hitt Chixx.
Thought the same about A Love That's True Parts 1 & 2 and Sittin' In My Car.
ReplyDeleteThe world really does need a brand new Slick Rick album with Doug E. Fresh guesting all over it right about now, imo.
Just one last Rick & Doug single would do. Shit, even a Rick single with frigging Kela on beatbox would do.
ReplyDeleteRelated, this is such a good run of songs on Behind Bars:
All Alone (No One To Be With)
Sittin' In My Car
A Love That's True Part 1
Cuz It's Wrong
Don't forget Raekwon w/r/t the dentistry curse
ReplyDeletepeople don't think Flipside is a classic? who are these foolks
ReplyDeleteTop 5 all time
ReplyDeleteI didn't even know Raekwon had his teeth done. Explains a lot.
ReplyDelete**Jadakiss voice**
Get them teeth caps and your artistic mojo gets capped!
If we're never getting another Slick Rick album, I would at least settle for Doug E Fresh's Oh, my God finally being released on CD.
ReplyDeleteHell yeah!
ReplyDeleteOther victim of the dentistry curse: Danny Brown
ReplyDeleteHah. Definitely.
ReplyDeleteThat Slick Rick Pete Rock song is a banger.
ReplyDeleteInnit just.
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