The Show gave careers to Slick Rick and Teddy Riley, so it’s a pity they didn’t work together again in the late 80s. The B-Fats was a 1987 Rooftop classic for B-Fats, but in Slick Rick’s hands it could have been an all-time classic full stop.
On one hand, Freaks is the G.O.A.T babby-dancehall song. On the other hand, every every Doug E. Fresh beatbox backing track should have gone to MC Rickoi D, and, yes, that includes Virgo.
One of Diamond D’s most sublime productions deserved far better than Fat Joe’s autocued grunting and KRS One rhyming about cum-splattered Rap magazines. Why why why didn’t Diamond save this beat for Slick Rick’s post-prison comeback?
If only Doctor Who would go back in time to 1996 during the recording of Jeru The Damaja’s second album and tell DJ Premier to stash the beats for Not The Average, Ya Playin’ Yaself and Me Or The Papes until Slick Rick came home from prison. TBF, Jeru did kill Not The Average, but he has such a finger-wagging puritanical tone that the song would be drastically improved if it were performed word-for-ford by Rick instead.
Only Talib Kweli’s own mum could possibly prefer him over this beat to Slick Rick the ruler. Rick and DJ Hi-Tek could keep Vinia Mojica on the track doing the backing vocals, but have her singing RICKY instead of KWELI.
