Name your top 5 favorite Slick Rick songs off of The Ruler's Back

[I love Latina women]

a lot of people don't fukk with this album like that and i get it, it's not The Great Adventures of Slick Rick

but it still had some joints on it i thought were nice

anyway, if you like this album, name your 5 favorite songs off it.


my top 5

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

King, Runaway, Bond (that you already listed) and these three



lyrically Top Cat is DUMB Complex storytelling Rick is scary good people slept on this

 

[Art Barr]

This album was trash.

Only good record was the remix to sitting in my car.

Which was never on the album.


Plus because of sampling law judgements. Was pulled.


luckily. You can still find it.

Art Barr

 

[I love Latina women]

King, Runaway, Bond (that you already listed) and these three



lyrically Top Cat is DUMB Complex storytelling Rick is scary good people slept on this

My man

I was going to list Top Cat too, but I love that Bond joint so much

Moses was another one too

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I'm sorry, I can't. The album just wasn't good. I can't name 4 songs I like. And I physically own it.

 

[Art Barr]

I'm sorry, I can't. The album just wasn't good. I can't name 4 songs I like. And I physically own it.

This.




Art Barr

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

i literally just re-listened to this album days ago at work.

Top Cat (i appreciate this more being catset now)
Mistakes of A Woman In Love With Other Men
Moses
I Shouldn't Have Done It
Bond

i'm glad i wasn't old enough to be a fan of Slick Rick or BDK to witness their decline in real time. though it's still evident, i can appreciate the lesser albums a little more. huge step down from Great Adventures -- still dope and has great storytelling, but the energy and "swag" aren't there for the most part. he was really goin through it in real life, so i get it.

 

[I love Latina women]

i literally just re-listened to this album days ago at work.

Top Cat (i appreciate this more being catset now)
Mistakes of A Woman In Love With Other Men
Moses
I Shouldn't Have Done It
Bond

i'm glad i wasn't old enough to be a fan of Slick Rick or BDK to witness their decline in real time. though it's still evident, i can appreciate the lesser albums a little more. huge step down from Great Adventures -- still dope and has great storytelling, but the energy and "swag" aren't there for the most part. he was really goin through it in real life, so i get it.

Great minds be in the same wavelength

yeah I was young when this album came out too but growing up, it’s one that I listened to often from my cousin’s collection of albums

 

[Mr 18]

This album was trash.

Only good record was the remix to sitting in my car.

Which was never on the album.


Plus because of sampling law judgements. Was pulled.


luckily. You can still find it.

Art Barr

trash doe?

 

[Art Barr]

trash doe?

unfortunately,...yeah.

def jam and slick rick imo had disconnect in that era.
as the a&r direction of defjam. was leaning heavily into the westcoast ideal. hence the warren g offbrand culturally non-associated first vinyl single from this record.
so quality on this record, and slick bar to bar.
leaves a lot to be desired. especially with him having so much mic rust from the inactivity in that time period.
if not for the b side remix i posted. which was not included on the album.
plus was pulled because of sampling clearance issues that were lost administratively as well.
so,...i don't remember.
if the vinyl for this single for this was only given out to record pools as a cutout level vinyl.
which did not see much light of day in retail. if at all..if i remember right.
as it was pulled so quick.
that copies of this on vinyl were super rare even back then.


art barr

 

[Mike Wins]

This was a classic nobody else could make

 

[Mystic]

Album was dope TF are you taking about

 

[MurderToCassette]

Album falls off a cliff after Mistakes, but it has some of his best storytelling. I read somebody say Bond sounds like The Bomb Squad if they scored a Hanna Barbara cartoon, which is pretty apt

This also needed to be on the album, not relegated to a B-side

 

[I love Latina women]

This was a classic nobody else could make

Facts

 

[FreshAIG]

Rick was rapping his ass off, but the beats were horrible