I was so disappointed that I couldn’t find this song in my “80’s Rap” playlist, which means I NEVER ADDED IT! WTF??? I was rapping this song randomly at work, so yeah, totally still into this song in 2024, and so on...
Rick's voice was unique. It wasn't just the accent, he had a way of manipulating his voice and the cadence so that it was entertaining all on it's own. Brilliant!
@Khamari Washington really simple. No guns. Kids weren’t on drugs. People would put down cardboard and breakdance on it. Sneaker culture was being born.
I was born in 2002, and this is one of my FAVORITE songs of all time. I don’t even know how I found it, but I absolutely love it. I come back every few months to this exact video just to listen to this song. I’ve memorized every word it’s SO GOOD. My friends look at me like I’m crazy when this comes on, probably because I’m the youngest in my entire friend group, and I listen to songs from before any of our times 😂
@@kevinbaker1476 yuo the done a cool track together im a hip hop old head but like Willie Nelson n Johnny Cash good smokin music. Johnnh Cash sung bout snorting cocaine shooting men 4 nothing n murdering cheating women the og gansta country star lol🤣
That style or vibe of rap where it was all clean fun was good and all but gangsta rap saved the genre. There’s no way rap would’ve been as big as it is today with this style of cornball rap. No way
''Slick Rick using one of Biggie's rhymes'' LOL That's hilarious!! Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick made this classic 10 years before Biggie borrowed the hook. La Di Da Di ..1985
Not to mention the line "were gonna show you how we do it for '85" and Rick's references to the popular luxury 80's fashions: Polo cologne, Gucci underwear, Bally shoes, and Kangol hat!
No words needed...🔥🔥🔥 Balley Shoes 👟 👞 Kangol Hat 🎩 Gold Teeth 🦷 Polo Cologne 🧴 Rope Chains ⛓ Gucci Underwear 🩲 Timeless classic for an old school head like me. This was an iconic jam then & now. It brings a smile every time I hear it & don’t get me to start singing 🎤 along. 🧡 Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh, y’all’s records was everything! 💯❤️👑 🏆🥇
This was a minute before my time. I was raised on NWA, Eazy-E, Too-Short, E-40, Spice-1, and a laundry list if other bay area rappers, but I can totally appreciate and respect this.
slick rick really defined "slick". in a sense he created a new style of being a man. he was a strong, tough-looking person, but his voice was light, almost effeminate. he never acted tough or rapped about how hard he was, yet he dropped bars like "now if he aint get me his friends will, needed a utensil, in turn i had to stab him in the eye with a pencil" with utter nonchalance, like he was talking about brushing his teeth. he gave a vision of masculinity that was cool, unflappable, "pretty", and stylish - yet showed and proved that he'd fuck up anyone who tested him. what's slicker than that?
+Kirk Luton True that, I carried my ghetto blaster and a tonne of cardboard on my BMX to meet up with my mates and dance, proper childhoood, with life creating music.....
The first hip hop song I ever heard almost 40 years ago now, and I just sang it word for word after not listening to it for at least 15 years. Almost had a time transport. As a person who holds music as high or higher than everything in my life, this song is top 3 of importance to me.
broke my needle playing this song on my record player.... mind was blown away... great song. zero instruments, other than the vocal affects. i simply could not believe it, back then!
Picture it Harlem the summer of 1985!!! A tape with “The Show” one side and “La Di Da Di” on the other side started making it’s way through the hood!! Imagine being at the Rooftop the first time Brucie B played both songs. I was 15 and NYC was my playground. To be a teenager in NYC in the 80s was truly something special. Much love from Harlem NYC ❤️❤️❤️
It was 1986 and my date showed up in his beat up car. He said his radio was broken but don't worry. He sang this to me the whole drive to keep me entertained. Those were the days.
@emimity what does you being white have to do with simply digging the music. I love Phil Collins and you will not ever hear me say I love Phil Collins and I am Black
Damn! I remembered hearing this when I was going High School in NYC ! I was a Freshman at Graphic Communication Arts. I didn't have a CD player at that time....just my walk man cassette player! LOL! Remember those? Anybody? I took the E Train from Jamaica Queens and got off on 50th Street if I recall correctly. This brings back a lot of memories!!
Many of hip-hop's old school and golden age MCs told all their methods of writing their lyrics for two books, they're named - *HOW TO RAP* and *HOW TO RAP 2*. So many legends took part in making those, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Tribe Called Quest, Mobb Deep...
Mobb Deep turned to shit and became wack as all fuck not long after Shook Ones. I bought about 5 or 6 12"s of theirs, Temperature's Rising etc... then they got wakkkkkkkkkkkkkk
'Don't cry, dry your eye' Lmao. Memories! Back in my school days, everyone got to say this to somebody else, at least once, at one time or another... 😆😍
Hot damn. Had this song in my head at random and happy to find it here. Still know every lyric, by heart, as I spent all too many hours as a kid trying to memorize it. Thanks for the flashback, so very necessary.
Man I love this song so much, 18 years old but my mama learned me this song since i was 6 years. Still one of my favorites! Love all the way from Amsterdam to Old skool!!
It’s all because of you, I’m feeling sad and blue You went away and now my life is filled with rainy days And I love you so, how much you’ll never know Cause you took your love away from meeee
I'm only 15, but I love this song! When I was 4, I found this song in my dad's rap folder and I started to like it. Now this song is one of my favorites!
@@aquaace9059 Oh it is, especally cuz when I was little a kid sang it in a way to mock me, but it's changed it's meaning as I've grown older and gotten more positive association
I heard atleast 5 songs that were in this song that inspired the people to make them.... in this song I see where biggie ' hypnotize, snoop doggs "la di da di", nwa "gangsta gangsta", Dr dre "nun but a G thing" all came from
