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!
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...
@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.
''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!
@@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🤣
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?
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
+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.....
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.
@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
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 😂
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 ❤️❤️❤️
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! 💯❤️👑 🏆🥇
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!
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.
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
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.
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!!
'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... 😆😍
@@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
Slick Rick taught us kids back in the day how to be fresh 😎 I had a pair of blue Bally’s at 13yrs old.. it’s a shame you can’t find them today they may not even make ‘‘em anymore 😩
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.
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!
This song and Run Dmc here we go live was #1 on the count down in Philly for weeks... Run Dmc was in 1983 and this one was 1985 you went crazy when it came on.
I was sitting in my mom's kitchen one night with my childhood friend listening to Mr. Magic Rap Attack waiting to hear any new material or hip hop song on the radio. We were hip hop junkies and addicted to hip hop so when this song came on ..my friend and I glanced at each other in amazement and we both were like who the fvck is this ..it was fresh and something we have never heard before but was music to our ears.
An unlikely tale-tell? just a simple good ol boy stomping around a horse farm in north Mississippi around 83-86 country music coming from the barn but I was head phoned listening to Slick Rick and the rest of the real time rappers from back when it was all original, bringing young men together.... then it turned ugly, driving young men apart to the point of killing, lets hope those days are behind us.
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!
Shock G (aka Humpty Hump) clearly ripped him off!
He also sang songs on his records. I just found the taste of Honey joint he sang on here. Lifestyle conscious rap. Slick Rick so Ill.
Polytonal and shifting cadences... Rick was a lyrical MC pioneer.
@@coolhandchunk So did Dres of Black Sheep, Smooth B., and Snoop Dogg
Just listening to him talking is so cool, such a cool voice.
It's mind-boggling how many artists have sampled lines from this song. True talent!!!
Eminem.
Rockwilder and Shortie No Mass for "Like This"
yeah, most notably hypnotize by biggie
Most notably the most sampled song in hiphop ever. Guinness wr
Nearly 90% of rappers from the 90s to now have bitten rhymes from this song some ate the whole song
Who else is still listening to this in 2024
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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...
1985.....if you weren't there, you'll never understand...oh what a great decade!
@rashe Word Life mam or sir Classic!
when I was 9 I found a tape on the curb, it had no label... it was this ;) thus my youth begun
Andy Wiatrowski nice bro
And like they say, the rest was history
did you rap
that quote is from brown sugar 😂
Dopest story lol
If I close my eyes, this song can transport me back to 1985.
Me2!!!!
yep, livin on long island and listenin to mr magics rap attack
@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.
O yep
I was 15 in 1985
Music is the ultimate time machine
Begged my mom for this record and played it on my Strawberry Shortcake record player and I've been rocking ever since.
Hahahahaha, that is one hell of a mental picture.... thanks for the brain smile...
LoL pretty sure I had the same record player, I would play the thriller album on mine all the time!
Loved my strawberry shortcake record player.
NICE!! that Strawberry 🍓 shortcake 🍰 record player was ROCKIN!! LOL 😆
I could not love this comment more 😂🥰🎶
''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
Lol true
TheSuperstoner4200 that’s right!!!
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!
Not to mention Montell Jordan and Snoop Dogg also copied his rhymes
Lol these youngster's need to learn you're music.. he stated that it was 1985... biggie used that song 10 long years later..
When rappers actually sounded like they were having fun.
They are true MCs. We don't really have MCs today. Just rappers
How could anyone dislike this? This is the essence of Hip Hop. Smh
mumble rap era
facts
People who dont understand real hip hop!!
There is no more dislike
Because the dude’s voice is mad annoying.
Old rap/hip hop aged like classic rock.
Fun fact: Snoop Dogg has confirmed that Slick Rick is his favorite rapper
I think Slick Rick is Nas' favorite rapper too.
fun fact: Willy Nelson is the only person to have smoked Snoop under the table. Snoop had to tap out!!
@@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🤣
Lloyd Banks said Rick and big daddy kane were his favourite rappers growing up as well
History Facts*
THE BEST HIP HOP ANTHEM EVER!!!!
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Influenced so many 👍
Facts
LORDS of hip hop
I was 13 when I first heard this in ‘85 and I still know the lyrics. The truest of hip hop classics!
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?
Wow,the best and most accurate Description of this cool Cat!😎✌✌✌
And the fact he is from London 🌟
Mike Tyson has a lighter voice and is more manly
@@louel9272 what is manly?
@@TheNinja94a something your not
"We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody." A few years later gangsta rap killed this vibe.
made it real!
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
"punched her in the belly and slammed her child on the concrete, she was a tough bitch.." and your argument continues?
Rap would be dead if it stayed Kool and the gang and Eric B for 40 years.
SuperMmmdelicious He's telling a story. What's gangsta about that?
THIS IS TRUE HIP HOP!!!!
+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.....
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.
Snoop doggs cover of this is definitely in my top 5 song
the best hip hop song of all time!!!
INDEED
ONE of the best.... But, I cannot say the best. I am a 56 y/o female; hence, that speaks volumes! Lol. This is one song that I can sing/ rap. Lok
I agree THE BEST
@@tammyhairston9809 no other hip hop song measures up to this one ...the sheer number of songs that have sampled this is a testament to that
@@thetruthandnothingbutthetr6484 Eric B and rawkim - microphone fean
Who listening to this is 2020
Gucci underwear - polo cologne
well not me
This is the best shit 🤣😂🤣 still love it so I'M LISTENING and still know the words 🖕
Great song rain on some else's parade hateful
Me
Such an awsome track. Hey kids, this is where it aaaaall started.
Tim Gannon Nope. Love it always have...! Oh but Debra Harry was the very first Rapper!
Yes indeed my brother
Yes, they don't understand this type of music.
I'm 11 and I love this song
Started well before this. Classic record though for sure.
No instruments, just pure 80s talent NY Hip Hop, lucky to grow up to this 🔥🗽💯
The human beatbox is the only instrument needed
Im 49yrs old. And Im white? I loved this song!!
@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
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 😂
Good taste. This is to hip-hop as kraftwerk-numbers is to synth music. Genre stripped down to it's bare essentials.
Good lad. You're not crazy. Walk your path, it's the right one.
You my young friend have exceptional taste in hip-hop. Respect
Released in 1985 and still better than all the modern rap records released nowadays.
1985 the year i graduated from high school....oh, the memories !
This song is critically unveiwed considering how often its sampled and how influential it was
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 ❤️❤️❤️
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! 💯❤️👑 🏆🥇
Forgot the Bubble bath and baby powder
Who’s listening on 2021
😁😁
mhm
Pure classic
I remember recording this off the radio with my cassette deck lol
@@nowhereman4041 Yes me too, when I heart a dope song, I recorded it, I still got a lot of cassettes with old school hip hop from 85-90....
I was in HS when this came out. One of the best rap songs. Hit it. It was mandatory as a teen to know EVERY FREAKIN WORD
That is correct!
4th grade for me! I remember where I was and what I was doing when 8 heard this the first time. I was like WTF! Instantly changed my life!
Time machine back to the 80s and 90s school
And funny to think critics at the time considered this a novelty song. Times have changed haven't they lol
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!
Had the PLEASURE of seeing Dougie Fresh live in Chicago few yrs back do the dougie and beat box. Fandamntastic
I can still sing every word. Slick Rick was a true Godfather.
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.
From the first listen I recognized 5 or 6 parts of the song sampled for other songs. Slick Rick is truly one of the greats.
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
HOW TO RAP book tribe
Unfortunately both books don't show much actual insight in "how to rap".
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.
To think on how many stuff this song inspired, so much history over history
My kids thought I was crazy when I started beatboxing...so I had to introduce em to the GOAT!
Ok 🐐
Teach your kids right miss
😂😂😂
@@SpecialAgent700 I’m trying.
Ha Ha, now that's some funny $hit!!!
This is the best hip hop ever! was 19/20 yrs old when this epic joint came out. I am 59 now still love love this!
Growing up in the 80s, when this came out it was amazing!
Real people days I miss 80s
HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY DOUGLAS DAVIS "DOUG E. FRESH" (SE[TEMBER 17, 2016)
The build up to 1:11 makes you appreciate the beatbox beat so much more.
I was in Brooklyn back in the 80's when I first heard this Hot Track. AWESOME!!!!!
Lol... Best years of my life... Bensonhurst Brooklyn... Best Music Ever
@@cathydavidson1260 Me, Bedstuy!!!
Fun Fact: This was the first hip hop song to feature 'explicit lyrics.'
Great to hear this again, 68 years old 2024
72
Cool!!!
Literally The creation of thousands of songs in just this one it has been sampled by seriously everyone.
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!!
No CD player, I don't know that they were invented yet.
13 and love them
Chile 2024 presente!
LOVE THIS SONG!!! This song brings back so many memories.
Love this song... Starting to listen to rap in 1979...
Da Ruler really is a living legend. Got to be one of if not the most sampled and credited Hip Hop artist of all time.
One of the greatest storytellers Slick Rick ❤️🔥
Legends
LA DI DA DI we gettin close 2021 family
Oh my god, now the 80s finally make sense!!! Hip Hop was born there
"You're gonna witness something you have not witness before"
prophetic words
THIS, WAS ALL IN THE AIR, defining the culture. GIVING US how to BE ROYAL. 😊WOW👑
How Many Times Has This Song Been Sample or Looped on Other Songs? LUV IT!
Over 500, living legend
This song literally shaped everything like🥺
Four words TRUE HIP HOP CLASSIC!
Funny how a single song can inspire a whole culture!!🔥🔥🔥
'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... 😆😍
My name is Lottie and people have sung this to me all my life, and I’m finally actually remembering to give it a listen
Wow that’s crazy, must be a lil annoying but still cool.
@@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
CLASSIC 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🎯❣️
2024 and still legendary 🙌
This song is the reason I got into beatboxing and I have been addicted to it ever since.
3:38 for Hypnotize
ITS A LONDON 🇬🇧💣💥 THING....
BIG UP RICKY D....
DA ADMIN KING 👑 WU-TANG-LONDON 🇬🇧🐝🌪🌏
Slick Rick taught us kids back in the day how to be fresh 😎 I had a pair of blue Bally’s at 13yrs old.. it’s a shame you can’t find them today they may not even make ‘‘em anymore 😩
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.
Is it weird that a 54 year old white woman knows every word to this song? No? Good.
Dis is DJ Cruzr69r Topic from DDDallas Droppin old school jammz for tha world 🌎 in Tha 2024🎉🎉🎉
Tuuuuuuuuuuuuneee ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇮🇪
Who’s been listening since 1984 💥
Yo old ass
1985 I was in the ninth grade central high school in Detroit Michigan what a classic
This two was so on point I wouldn’t be surprised if they were subway performers before they made it big…
This song is a blueprint of true hip hop
The masterprint...
sampled over 500 times. So cool.
Had to revisit for the summer of 2022💯🥂🥳🔥🔥
WOWWWWWWW….that’s all I can say or I’d be here all day ⭐️🎼🤣🤣😉🙏🌺
The best first of first....from an OG who was hooked from this song forward.....
Ladidade na minha idade
Eu só quero é festa
Não perturbo a cidade 🎶
soooo many memories!!!! yeaaaya
Snoop did a great job when he remade this CLASSIC
Damn I was 13 yrs.old Wow and 2020 my son is in College God cover him in the Blood Of Jesus Amen
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
Any idea why it's been taken out of the song?
@@MsRemillo copyright is my only guess
@@-Hoods but wasn't that verse originally from this song anyway?
@Michael Novelli Oh Wow.
I had no idea. Thanks for that 😊👍
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!
This song and Run Dmc here we go live was #1 on the count down in Philly for weeks... Run Dmc was in 1983 and this one was 1985 you went crazy when it came on.
THAT VIRGO ENERGY ♍ #DOUGEFRESH 👑♍🖤🎧🎛🎤🎵🎼🔥🌹🎂🍨🎈🎁🥃 9/17
Dayum....Oldschool memories love it!!! °•♡
I used to have this on vinyl, cant believe I lost that shit.
This is legendary. All rap fans know this clip by heart. In school this would be Rap-101. Anyone has the original video for this will be a billionare.
I was sitting in my mom's kitchen one night with my childhood friend listening to Mr. Magic Rap Attack waiting to hear any new material or hip hop song on the radio. We were hip hop junkies and addicted to hip hop so when this song came on ..my friend and I glanced at each other in amazement and we both were like who the fvck is this ..it was fresh and something we have never heard before but was music to our ears.
So many samples from this one somg its crazy slick rick was so far ahead of his time
An unlikely tale-tell? just a simple good ol boy stomping around a horse farm in north Mississippi around 83-86 country music coming from the barn but I was head phoned listening to Slick Rick and the rest of the real time rappers from back when it was all original, bringing young men together.... then it turned ugly, driving young men apart to the point of killing, lets hope those days are behind us.
Real Rapp music....
💥2021💥From the 80s until the end of time THIS IS THE REAL JAM!!!!
Greetings from Serbia, hip hop athem