So after turning in the first draft of a tee shirt design to the client, I rewarded myself by finding it on YouTube.
The sales pitch:
Smooth Ice was down with Run-D.M.C. he was one of their proteges. They produced the whole album and also co-wrote the lyrics. Album "Smooth Ice" (1990)
The ghetto James Bond video and his deadpan delivery had me messed up. The way his lines sometimes trail off at the end of a line makes me giggle in places:
"Nervous 'cause the service I'm giving is unique.
I keep striving with the beats that freak
And beat you batty... Until you call me daddy.
Smooth like a new pair o' shocks on a Caddy
or a ninety eight..."
I actually bought Ice's self-titled album.
It was pretty forgettable. Good enough that I rocked it a lot, but this song is so much better than the rest. I think Smooth Ice probably suffered from being a little too smooth at times, to the point of coming off too predictable.
On Do It Again, Ice manages to mix it up just enough to be memorable. Speeding up and slowing down. Short sentences and complex ones. This song, at least, had the ability to haunt me 30 years later.
- a m e n
Samax Amen is a professional Content Developer, Illustrator and Cartoonist. He is the artist of many great comics you never heard of like FREELANCER LIFE, Herman Heed, Champion of Children, and The World As You Know It. He even writes and draws his own comics, like Dare: The Adventures of Darius Davidson, Spontaneous, and Manchild when he gets around to it. Because making comics is hard and stuff, he started GhettoManga as a blog in 2006 and as a print magazine in 2008.
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