I'm not the biggest fan of this type of rap delivery. Similes involving famous people, running through the rhyming dictionary for every single variation on a syllable, lots of repetitions and unnecessary grunts randomly thrown in have all been done before. Roxanne Shante was making these tricks sound boring back in the early '80s but what lifts this song out of the mediocre is the samples and bassline. Oh my goodness, it's quite beautiful. Listen for yourself.
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