djchameleon

Outkast is what helped me get into Slick Rick actually with this song.

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

Forward To Death

GTA: San Andreas is what helped me get into Slick Rick.

Cuthbert

Never heard that Slick Rick verse before. Don't watch videos on Youtube and I have the Aquemini album on CD, Slick's verse isn't on there.

DoesntReallyMatter

Wow, you must be a young guy.

Jesus Christ, you too?

Wow, I feel old. lol, it's ok.

djchameleon

Not really. I just wasn't interested in Slick before and saw him more as a joke/hype man type rapper like Flavor Flav and I just didn't care.

I am probably older than yourself.

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

DoesntReallyMatter

I'm 38, you?
Remember hanging out, as a 6 year old, with 'crackheads' on the elementary school playground afterhours.


joke/hype .... has it's own importance.
That's how breakdance started out.

On that same playground.

djchameleon

I'm 8 years younger than you.

Yeah, I know the importance of hype men. That was back when DJs had a stronger presence. The hypeman was there to back up the MC at the party that usually just freestyled to whatever the DJ was playing while he was scratching.

__________________

Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

DoesntReallyMatter

How can he possibly be a 'hype man' ...with no 'hype man' of his own?
On these albums?

(You know Jay Z was in 'Ain't No Half Steppin'?) Little tid bit of fact.
Not as a hype man...just, in the video.

I know what a ****ing Hype man was, flavor flav. etc.

One of the first two albums I ever bought in my life.
'Takes a Nation of Millions'. I was 8-9.

First was Run DMC, Raisin Hell, I was like 8.
Embarrassed to say the word to the record store clerk.

djchameleon

I know he wasn't technically one but the whole jokey vibe just reminded me of one.

__________________

Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

DoesntReallyMatter

I love 'jokey'...rap. And, seriously, you call Slick Rick a (overall) 'jokey rapper.'
C'mon. Do I need to repost? Okay I will, but, with a remix:


This ain't funny so don't ya dare laugh...
What makes you think this is a joke?

Because he's not into killing women? A positive message?
But, it's the production work that works for me.
Listen 10+ times and still hear something new...