jay z on slick rick/excerpt from his decoded book

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Jay-Z on Slick Rick


The British MC was one of the cornerstones of Def Jam Records’ early years and left quite an impression on hip-hop’s following generations. In the “Come and Get Me” section of “Decoded,” Jay delves into why Slick was so talented, juxtaposed with Texas MC Scarface. Both icons use emotion in their lyrics: Rick through the punch line of a lingering joke, and ‘Face through a brash and open delivery.

“Slick Rick also wrote some of the first rap songs that were genuinely sad — which sounds like a strange thing to say. … Slick Rick was too much of an artist to come out with straight-up tearjerkers, but like all great comics he knew how to hide deeper emotions between the punch lines, emotions like regret and loss, the kind of feelings that could make you pause even while you were speeding down the New Jersey turnpike on the way to your hustling spot. … Slick Rick taught me that not only can rap be emotionally expressive, it can even express those feelings that you can’t really name — which was important for me, and for lots of kids like me, who couldn’t always find the language to make sense of our feelings.”

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http://www.mtv.com/news/1652433/jay-zs-decoded-the-five-most-revealing-excerpts/
 
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