My name is D-Nice, although I hate to admit it, I'm taking out you suckas and you don't know how I did it.

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I have just listened to this song 8 times in a row.

What year is it now?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:18 (twenty years ago)

good, but not as good as:

I’m the magnificent with the sensational style
And I can go on and on for like a mile, a minute
I get in it like a car and drive
And if the record is smash, I can still survive

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

if anyone has that whole special ed album they'd like to ysi a poor soul who still has the tape, i'd give you a virtual

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:46 (twenty years ago)

my wife had SUCH a crush on d-nice back in the day

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 20 January 2006 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Special Ed was fucking great.

Well, its 1990, 89 has ended
Now its time for all those who pretended
To settle and cease with the noise
You and your boys - its time to put away the toys
Christmas is over and this is my resolution
To stop the confusion
Let the fresh get fresh and the stale get staler
And throw em in a pale of
Trash with the other trash and smash down the lid
For all the weak shit they did
Never in my life have I seen such preposterous behavior
And you got no flavor
Cant taste the juice cause I got the matz
I heard you paid for your _billboard_ spots
Honest, I promise, I am not a liar
Cant you understand that I am flier than a flyer
No need to try a stunt like that
Never in my life could I front like that
On _soul train_ with your brand new hit
When it wasnt even playin cause you aint sayin -
Nothin, cause theyre wacker than wack
Yo ak - get ready to attack

(crushin mcs that be tryin to riff) --> big daddy kane

[ verse 2 ]
People say new jack, what jack?
You wanna get slapped, jack
Or get flipped like a flapjack?
I been rockin rhymes and I been rockin mics
Ever since you was on bmx bikes
You was busy braggin bout the mags on your honey
I was in flatbush tryin to get money
Brooklyn, crookin up the whole damn place
Want to truck jewelry, dont turn your face
But I dont resort to those sort of things
I dont wear big chains or big rings
Gold was stole from caves full of slaves
Now black-on-black, and youre free as waves
In the ocean, without a notion
Am I surfin fast over your head?
Maybe you need glasses or classes in special ed
Let me see -
I can fit you in on monday at 3
Tuesdays is use days
And wednesdays is friends days
And thursdays is hers days
And fridays is my days
And saturdays is fun days
And sundays the one day
I rest, give thanks and bless
Again on monday I will be back
Yo ak - get ready to attack

(crushin mcs that be tryin to riff) --> big daddy kane

[ verse 3 ]
Man your position, lets start dishin
Straight out battlin, no intermission
Aint no stoppin us, aint no toppin us
I suggest your best bet is drop and just
Run and dont stop until you drop
You might break your hip, but just hip-hop
But if you wanna go through it, the proceeding
Get a doc, cause when I rock youll be needing
Medical attention - critical condition
Surgeons callin, consult a physician
Get a prescription, go to the pharmacy
Thats what happens when you dont want harmony
Im not violent, I stay silent and mutual, Im neutral
But negative souls wanna interreact
Then I get ready to attack
Yo ak - lets attack

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 20 January 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Don't say I never did nothin' for ya.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 20 January 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)

"Crumbs On the Table" bitches

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 20 January 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

1 Taxing
2 I Got It Made
3 I'm the Magnificent
4 Club Scene
5 Hoedown
6 Think About It
7 Ak-Shun
8 Monster Jam
9 The Bush
10 Fly MC
11 Heds and Dreds
12 I Got it Made (Businesslike Version)

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 20 January 2006 05:35 (twenty years ago)

the Call Me D-Nice rec was always a big fave back in high school... used to listen to that sucker while delivering pizzas. All I knew is he wuz down w/ KRS and the BDP posse and that was A-OK by me. That's also why I loved my main man Steady B too .. the Let The Hustlers Play tape was always in heavy rotation on the Cheffy's Pizza routes. fuckin anything PE or BDP or NWA related was in the box at all times.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 20 January 2006 05:36 (twenty years ago)

thanks austin, made my evening.

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 20 January 2006 06:11 (twenty years ago)

Call Me D-Nice is '88, '89 at the latest...

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

at my new year's eve party, we rented a pro karaoke machine....I fucking KILLED with Special Ed's "I Got It Made"....show over....kicked a hole in the speaker, grabbed the mic and I jet....I'm untouchable on that song...I can kick the whole thing off the dome, son, no TV monitor lyrics needed.

also, I just saw D-Nice as one of the "Cool New People" on myspace!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

oh shit. although this special ed album is wicked, i just realized it was actually the second one i had on tape (with I'm the Magnificent). now i gotta track that one down too.

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

oh man, I've been looking for more of his stuff - all I have is "I Got It Made" on a Grandmaster Flash mix. Love those offbeat lines "I write rhymes, daily/you burn me... really?"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

i have that choreographed when i karaoke it! in the video special ed kind of puts his hand to his ear when he says "really?" like "what's that sonny? speak up!"

youngest in charge is a work of genius. for real. and the i got it made beat might be my fav ever.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)

The second one is called "Legal", w/ Ready 2 Attack and the Mission. I'm the Magnicicent is on Youngest in Charge.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

duh, i knew that. i meant the Mission

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

the mission was pretty cool too....i never got that second one.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

actually, there's a I'm Magnificent remix on Legal. that musta been what i was thinking.

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

oh, and "Come on Let's Move It" samples Belle Epoque, so how could it be bad.

also: Everybody thank your moms cause she delivered us
Thanks to your pops, he gave the drops of life
Thanks ot the Lord, the sword, the double knife
That I use to fight evil like I fight suckers
Damn, I like jam, so I wanna thank Smuckers

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

For the record, I was listening to a tape of D-Nice. If someone wants to help me out with Digital Niceness...

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/w/Special-Ed--I-Got-It-Made?v=0EF5sHFMLys&search=old%20school%20hip%20hop

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

was there a 12" for Club Scene? Gotta play the Hip-House!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:54 (twenty years ago)

that songs just makes me wanna scream "P-P-P-PUT IT ON VIBRATE!"

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:56 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

I have listened to this song 4 times in a row now.

It occurs to me that Eminem and Snoop (among many others) totally bit the "My Name Is..." hook. And if you say that it's too generic to be credited to anyone in particular and may as well say it's James Bond's as anyones, well, so fucking what? This is the best use of it ever.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 2 November 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Also the best beat in "Jackin' For Beats"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 2 November 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

We need a "Crumbs On The Table" thread next.

"Is that a turntable? Well get on it"

The beats to those two destroy all.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 2 November 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

D-Nice kicks the song off my announcing his name, and then immediately qualifies it with, "...although I hate to admit it." Which kind of goes against a center tenet of hip-hop if you think about it. (And yet the title instructs us to "Call Me D-Nice." Contradictions abound...)

"I live in the Bronx by the D and the 4" is a great line.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I justify that by claiming that "although I hate to admit it" is a new sentence that continues "I'm taking out you etc." It's not any more clear why such a feat would require rueful admission, though.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 3 November 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

false modesty = bravado?

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 3 November 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

Also, to repeat: anyone who has a good digital copy of this is invited to write me at the email address below. My old tape is getting worse and worse.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 3 November 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

"The TR 808 is Coming" has to be the single slowest non-screwed rap cut I've ever heard.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 3 November 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

"although I hate to admit it" is a new sentence that continues "I'm taking out you etc." It's not any more clear why such a feat would require rueful admission, though.

Maybe he's trying to portray a mysterious persona, but he seems gregarious enough for the rest of the song. He does clarify later that his name is Derrick, "and if I didn't mention, D-Nice is just a description." Clearly a rapper confused about his image.

Probably the "false modesty=bravado" theory is closer to the mark, though, like Kane's "pardon my expression but I'ma tear shit up."

I read way, way too much into old rap lyrics.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I’m the magnificent with the sensational style
And I can go on and on for like a mile, a minute
I get in it like a car and drive
And if the record is smash, I can still survive

I'm convinced Special Ed's lyrics were ghostwritten by Chubb Rock

― PappaWheelie, don't fuck this up (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Call Me D-Nice is '88, '89 at the latest...

Nah. Yo Raps debuted in 88, and it was like a year or so before this track debuted there.

Looking at Discogs, 1990, which sounds right:

http://www.discogs.com/release/300179

So, uh, The Turtles Buzzsaw...classic.

― PappaWheelie, don't fuck this up (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

> Kane's "pardon my expression but I'ma tear shit up."

I thought this was more to do with not wishing to be judged for his use of profanity - a 'pardon my french' moment, if you will.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

I remember hearing the song on the radio in 1990--and I mostly remeber it because though he demanded to be called D-Nice he also mentioned that he had two or three other names.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Saturday, 4 November 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

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