This is why I love Slick Rick

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He's one of the best storytellers in Hip-Hop. This is why I love 80s'-90's cause they motherf*cker got heart to it and putting their souls on the damn song cause they love it moterf*cker. You don't see that shyt in nowadays motherf*cker they just do it for $$$ or the boss told them to do it.

Anyway here the story about Slick Ross for what he did in the studio.




Album: The Art of Storytelling

Label: Def Jam/IDJMG/Universal

DJ Clark Kent:“He was like, ‘You think you could **** with ‘Funky President’? So I made the drums play a certain way so you could still hear the [riff] in ‘Funky President.’ But I also made it so you could take it out. I took each stab, and added the stabs to just the drum beats. He was like, ‘I don’t even know how you separated that shyt, but you’re dope.’ And from that day, I was dope.

“Then, he was like, ‘I want to hear some bass line shyt, and I want it to be jumpy. I don’t want it to be hard.’ So I played the shyt on the SP-1200. And you could see him coming up with the music while it’s coming together.

“He’s sitting there humming, and I’m like, ‘What are you doing?’ He’s like, ‘I’m coming up with a hook, give me a second.’ Then he went in the booth and went, ‘Ooooh, why, why, why, why.’ And he’s like, ‘I’m gonna do that for the whole song.’ I’m like, ‘What?’ So now it’s in there for the whole song. And it’s not even like I sampled it. It’s him going all the way down the track. Then he does his verses.

“I remember Mariah Carey heard that song, and she was blown away. She loved it. She thought Slick Rick was the greatest.”

Slick Rick - Why Why Why
[ame=http://youtu.be/EVJX09KhPS4]Why Why Why - Slick Rick (The Art of Story Telling) - YouTube[/ame]

Just :whew: and Slick Rick is :boss: and :bow::bow:
 

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slick rick da god 3rd best storytellin mc of all time
 

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ghost n nas
much respect due to ricky though
 

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Nasir Bin Olu Dara

Ghost Deini The Wizard Of Poetry

Both are sons (in a sense) of The Ruler so it's not even a slight to Slick Rick, more of the students reaching heights the Master never attained


Well, but Nas and Ghost would tell you that Slick Rick was the reason why and is and always will be the best storyteller of all time.

There are many rappers like are good storytellers.
 

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I remember I bought this CD the day it came out and played this on the way home:

[ame=http://youtu.be/keshkCzCEVE]Slick Rick - Adults Only - YouTube[/ame]

My mom heard it playing once....
 

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Does anyone remember...when you saw Canibus' name on #9 track CD and I was exciting to hear til the song end ....I WAS LIKE WTF...WHERE IS F*CKING REST OF CANIBUS' VERSE?. I knew Canibus would have murder this song at the end with the perfect title "King Piece In The Chess Game". And not so surprised he got blackballed by Def Jam for against LL Cool J. LL was a b!tch move for that.....Def Jam did remove the verse of this song. You tell me that Nas and Rakewon, Andre 3000 have the full verse but not Canibus?

Canibus - "Yo, we can battle in front of the castle, I'll disgrace you
I roast you, I burn you, I bake you
I cremate you -- I motherf*ckin hate you!
The king piece in the chess game'll check mate you, n!gga!
Ricky D y'all.."



When you heard Canibus' verse at the ending and you about to knew that Canibus gonna to murder this song like :krs: and sh!t went off sh!t like 10 sec and you be like where the f*ck rest of the verse? got you p!ssed like :damn: and :pacspit: at LL Cool J and Def Jam
 

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Nah Slick Rick is the best story teller rapper of all time.


Everyone else listed excells him in other categorys, but when it comes to straight telling stories on tracks. Slick Rick has no equal.
 
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