Too much of anything makes you an addict

I hated Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” with a passion so it was with perverse glee that it became the anchor sample for Nice and Smooth’s “Sometimes I Rhyme Slow.” The opening riff isn’t long enough to fool you into thinking it’s the original (like the damned opening of SOHO’s “Hippie Chick”) but it was enough to turn a few heads and piss off the folkies on campus when it came out. I didn’t like much else these guys did but this one still manages to pop up in my playlists. The video is a slice of terrible but it’s fun to watch it now and marvel at how the character in the second half of the song could be Whitney Houston.

Nice and Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow