Sunday, 15 June 2025

Rick & Marty

Slick Rick - So You're Having My Baby
(From Victory mini album; 2025)


I'm gonna need a bigger dookie rope to get my head around this new Slick Rick mini album thingy Victory. Don't call it a comeback when it's only 27 minutes long including a buncha interludes with no rapping. The one thing I can say with any certainty is that the songs which initially stick for me are the songs which sound like unreleased Behind Bars era tracks. The whole point of Hip-Hop is not caring about artists intentions/intended purposes and using their music however you see fit instead. Thus, I'm probably gonna consider Victory the follow up to The Further Adventures Of Slick Rick, The Ruler rather than the follow up to The Art of Storytelling.

Slick Rick ft. Giggs - Stress
(From Victory mini album; 2025)

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13 comments:

  1. Yohan15 June 2025 at 14:14

    Haven’t been able to check this release yet but heartening to see at least a few songs on here are actually good.

    I remember getting hyped for Rakim’s 7th Seal album. Was a hard lesson to learn

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  2. Kelvin Mack10zie15 June 2025 at 14:31

    😄 I've never even heard that.

    There was one good Zshare loosie released up in the lead up to it tho - I'm Back with Lil' Fame.

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    1. Ben15 June 2025 at 14:56

      Maino being on the lead single is all you need to know😂

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  3. Kelvin Mack10zie15 June 2025 at 15:00

    Ben, I'd forgotten that one. A snapshot of New York Rap in 2009 😬

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  4. Yohan15 June 2025 at 15:40

    Never even heard I'm Back. Cheers.

    I also remember liking that Classic song with Rakim, Premier, KRS-One, Nas and Kanye if I'm not mistaken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8RjnpZeM4U

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  5. Dino15 June 2025 at 22:43

    Apparently the new Slick Rick EP is actually a "visual album." Because there's nothing Swifties, the Bee Hive and Sheerios love more than a one eyed pensioner auditioning for Mary Poppins.

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    1. Kelvin Mack10zie16 June 2025 at 09:36

      Ice-T was doing "visual albums" before all those mofos

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  6. Anonymous16 June 2025 at 01:01

    Glad there are some good songs on there. Love The Ruler

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  7. xanax fantasia17 June 2025 at 03:32

    can't stop listening to "documents" with nas wtf is going on has idris always been good at music lol

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    1. Kelvin Mack10zie17 June 2025 at 09:03

      I didn't realise Elba was behind this shit until yesterday.

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  8. Yohan18 June 2025 at 16:55

    Also can't front on that Landlord track after a first listen, thought it would be terrible based on name/subject matter but it's a top 3 joint from that album for me so far lol

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    1. Kelvin Mack10zie18 June 2025 at 17:02

      I wish So You're Having My Baby was longer. Rick doing -2 minute songs 👎

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