Slick Rick was recently profiled by The New York Times.
The article, titled “At 50, a Hip-Hop Pioneer Still Has Stories to Tell” appeared in the esteemed publication on Sunday (February 8).
Within the piece, Slick Rick discusses his return to the Bronx, New York and reflects on the current state of Hip Hop. The genre, he says, has gone awry since its heyday.
“Hip Hop disrupted the order of things,” he says. “It was the pulpit, and if you put the right person in front of the pulpit, they can speak for the youth of the planet. Instead, it was altered and diluted. What you see now are performers who have been broken to fit into a mold. They are not going to disrupt the order of things.”
Rick left out names in his comments and wasn’t too specific with his remarks. But the Hip Hop pioneer did appear to come off as content and unworried about the youth’s perception of him.
Perhaps Rick the Ruler didn’t read Young Thug’s recent GQ interview, in which the rapper made ageist comments about albums by artists 30 years and over not being purchased by minors.
The “Children’s Story” rapper falls in the age bracket Thug was referring to. Slick Rick has reached the half-century mark, but he says he can’t tell.
“I don’t feel like I’m 50,” Rick says. “I don’t talk like a 50-year-old person. Sometimes miserable old people depend on happy young people to give them a sense of purpose. Not me. Of course not.”
Rick is the truth. Why would he give a flying fuck what Young Thug thinks? One of them will go down in history is a passing trend.
*one is a passing trend
Rick had damn near verse of the year on that mos record a few years back. That was some REAL shit.
I crave cock
Is there a white castle in your area?
yup, dying for him to drop an album or something I would kill for it
When “The Message” came out it disrupted the order of things.
A lot of my older friends who were teenagers during that time said that song was never supposed to even came out. They talk about how GOD had something to do with that.
The Message was showing the world how it really is in the Ghetto, the message was too deep. It literally changed the whole World with that one song.
It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Check out Mos Def feat. Slick Rick – Auditorium
Much respect to the pioneers of the game. Blessings. Hiphop keeps you young!