And even if I got deported, I own America
Slick Rick quotes
- Quotes
- 8
- Lyrics
- 6
- Interviews
- 2
Here are 8 lines: Six lyrics and 2 interview quotes (The New York Times (2015) and Stereogum (2025)). Craft, pain, street and wisdom each show up on 3 lines. The songs are Children's Story (three lines), La Di Da Di, I Own America, Part 1 and Behind Bars. The storytelling is the draw: cops shooting a kid and the narrator still hearing the scream, a line that "even if I got deported, I own America", and a hypnotize-me hook in La Di Da Di. The interviews turn to rap itself, performers broken to fit a mold and a genre that isn't athletic.
Miss outdoors, never know what you have until it's took'en
He was only seventeen, in a madman's dream
The cops shot the kid, I still hear him scream
The cops shot the kid, I still hear him scream
This ain't funny so don't you dare laugh (Uh-huh)
Just another case about the wrong path (Uh-huh)
Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, can't you see?
Somehow your words just hypnotize me
But rap music is not athletic! It doesn't require you to be physically fit to be at the top of your game. You can expand your mind's growth and still get better with age.
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