The Great Adventures of Slick Rick Poll

childrens story

can only be childrens story

i will vote hey young world cuz i am a sap

"young w-ha-ha-ha-orld"

if you smoke crack your kids'll smoke crack tomorrow

"Children's Story"'s a no-brainer, but I'm going with "Mona Lisa" to keep it interesting. I used to hear that on the old school midday mix on the radio like twice a week.

this is actually a pretty hard one for me to be honest...real consistent album

It's obviously "Children's Story" but a part of me wants to vote for "Lick The Balls".

Such a great album.

Children's Story.

Children's Story will win this, but it was hard to pass up "Treat Her Like A Prostitute"

i voted for teenage love cuz i'm a sucka 4 luv. and rick's singing.

a part of me wants to vote for "Lick The Balls".

-- HI DERE, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:23 PM

which part?

left elbow

yep children's story

honorable mention to the crabs at the end of "Indian Girl"

Please do a The Ruler's Back poll next, Oilyrags. Cuz I soooo know my answer.

Actually, I don't think I've ever heard that whole album. Hmmm...

Da Art of Storytelling is better. FACT

The fact is, mack caught cable in an actress
And really is the the black clark gable of the rap biz

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I wonder if maybe I should have put La-Di-Da-Di and The Show in this poll. I mean, obviously they're not on "Great Adventures" but still.

Mona Lisa!

R -- ravishing
I -- impress
C -- courageous; so careless
K -- for the kangols which Ive got
That I wear everyday and
Y -- why not?

ARGH! I was just about to quite that part, but I guess I'll have to settle for "Great Scott! Are you a thief? It seems that you have a mouth full of gold teeth!" "Mona Lisa" ftw.

Da Art of Storytelling is better. FACT

I read an interview sometime back with slick rick where the interviewer asked him if "Indian Girl" was an allegory for how native americans were treated by the colonists. I think his response was "no, not really." Pretty funny.
I think "treat her like a prostitute" ranks up there among the great moments in late eighties/early nineties hip hop misogyny along with Too $hort's "Ain't nothin but a word to me." It's so wrong it's almost right, or if not right, at least hilarious.

Real funny. The most mysogynistic song in the universe (about the joys of rape) from a complete jerk. Can I vote "he should suck one?"

what song is about the joys of rape?

Indian Girl baby.

'joys'?

i mean, no question that song is questionable, dont get me wrong

Overstated on my part? Yeah. But such gleeful revelry around a rascist song about rape - um, no thanks.

yeah its not one of my top tracks or anything for those reasons but all the same, i'd say its going for ironic contradiction there, thus the crabs-gotcha at the end

Yeah I see your point, although in terms of ironic contradiction it's not my cup of tea. An ironic song about a skinhead raping an African American woman, anyone? I'd like to see Eminem pull that one off without comment. I have turned into an old fogey.

Rapper in Neanderthal sexual politix shockah!

Please don't forget that there is a consequence to Davy Crockett's actions, Humansuit.

"treat her like a prostitute" and "indian girl" are pretty ill...although great...but man the song "Adults Only" on art of storytelling is disgusting...so bad....

oh come on i'm not saying its right or morally cool but its also not celebrating rape

plenty to criticize w/out having to read something into it that isnt there

Telling a jovial story about a man who rapes a girl who secretly wants it isn't celebrating rape, because Rick reveals that the girl has VD.

ok thats not what i said, the vd reveal was important only in that it was another example of the undercurrent of intentional morbidity in the face of the lighthearted pop song its pretending to be

maybe i'm reading too much into his intent and he's a creep who thinks rape is ok but i assumed that while it wasn't an allegory for caucasian rape of north america its still not an endorsement of such

its a creepy song regardless

still not an endorsement of rape in general, i mean

because you may get VD.

no

because sometimes people tell stories about characters whose actions they don't necessarily endorse

but fuck it, i dont know, maybe he is a rape-y crepe and the song is weird enough that i'm not spending any more time playing cap'n save-a-con

because sometimes people tell stories about characters whose actions they don't necessarily endorse

And Rick, at least, is a lot more straightforward about his status as what amounts to a fiction writer. "Indian Story" is a third-person narrative, like a lot of his songs, which is much rarer than first-person perspective in rap. And of course, a lot of the first person story-raps are fiction as well (or what people obsessed with 'realness' might call 'fronting.') Rap is such a strange case when it comes to lyrical content being conflated to represent the performer, probably because the persona of the rapper has becomes such an important marketing tool. Shit, when Rick first went to jail on attempted murder how impressed a lot of (mostly pretty stupid) people were.

Yeah, you don't want just assume that the author of "Treat Her Like A Prostitute" is permissive when it comes to misogynist violence.

want <i>to</i> just assume, rather.

and "Children's Story" is the winner, obv.

yes, obv if i think that there is some authorial distance that means i think that no authors have any intent whatsoever in their stories and are totally not responsible for anything they say

but man the song "Adults Only" on art of storytelling is disgusting...so bad....

haha yep - that tune came up on some other thread tho, I think ethan was the one who really dug it

Please don't forget that there is a consequence to Davy Crockett's actions, Humansuit.

All you need do is go back to the 'skinhead raping the African American woman' thought exercise. Does consequence make the song less dispicable, "Because sometimes people tell stories about characters whose actions they don't necessarily endorse"? As others have pointed out, just because it is a story with no basis in fact does not put it above moral evaluation. In other words: I hate this fucking song. :(

he's agreeing with you, he was clowning a misread of my contention

Well it comes as no surprise to me that I didn't pick up on that.

art of storytelling is excellent though i've been listening to it quite a bit lately.

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I thought I'd be the only one voting for Moment I Feared.

More low turnout. I better not do a Kool Moe Dee poll or it'll be so depressing I'll kill myself for the 11 votes it attracts.

Let's do a Dana Dane album next!

Redhead Kingpin!

NO! WAIT!

Red Hot Lover Lover Tone!

"Treat Her Like a Prostitute" robbed.

red hot lover lover tone was pretty cool.

I thought I'd be the only one voting for Moment I Feared

HI DERE

(heh, I've been looking for a reason to say that forever)

kind of wish id voted for moment i feared

we can have whatever will please us

^^the way he delivers this kills me