Worst line from 'Zip Zap Rap' by Devastatin' Dave The Turntable Slave

Ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta talent got my vote.

Love the beatboxing section. He sounds like he's making fart noises with his hands.

But I think I'd have to go with the amazingly clumsy line after the "car" one.

Maybe you'll get over you will see / That what I'm saying is really real / Like at the swap meet / A serious deal... that could change the course of your life

Swap meet?? What does that have to do with Saying No To Drugs?

is there a reason "zap" is directly over his crotch

like it SHOULD be "zip" right

asthmatic beatboxing ftw

The final lines cap it all off in a literally apocalyptic non-sequitur. Got my vote.

There's an amazing zen simplicity to "Zip dip zap, a zip wit a wabbit / Zippy dipa wippa got a cocaine habit."

I'm not very savvy when it comes to this stuff, but you don't smoke coke, right?

Usually referred to as smoking crack or freebase, but yes, it is a thing.

right, but not the powder though? I was just confused because the phrase "smoking coke" sounded very odd to me

I remember in high-school some kids would "snow-cap" their blunts, but I don't know how this actually worked out for them.

I'm not very savvy when it comes to this stuff, but you don't smoke coke, right?

― Vinnie

i sure don't! drugs aren't cool!

anyway, this song is truly the ursonate of rap

...ly

wit a wabbit
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I lost my shit at "Don't get high and drive a car / you will not get very far", not least of all because

because truth

Backstory to this track? I'm guessing from circa 1982

This has of course been featured on 'worst album covers' lists for years, but impressively it manages to be even worse than the cover let on. Even his stage name... turntable slave doesn't sound very well thought out when he could have been DJ Alabaster the Turntable Master.

maybe the only entry in that 'worst album cover' list where the music actually lives up to the cover?

xxp released 1986

Ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta talent
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^ I knew that lyric reminded me of something familiar... that was it!

Can't put my finger on why but I'm going with 'Rip rap rop smoking back to back'.

Rip and a rap I wrote with a rhyme / I think you better call the cocaine hotline

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i love the simple revelation in this one

Zip dip zap, a zip wit a wabbit / Zippy dipa wippa got a cocaine habit

scratching with "stop" from 'rock and don't stop' at the end of Planet Rock

I like the fact that there's still a lot of mystery around this track, the enigma that is Devastatin' Dave. Even the record sleeve doesn't give many clues, although it does contain an absurdly long list of thank-yous.

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Dude, you put out one single. Probably a bit too soon to be writing your Oscar speech.

Tbf he probably knew he'd never make another single

'86 was a vintage year for anti-drugs rekkids...

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^^^ 1987, and maybe even less equipped to fight drug use, though OTOH it has popped into my head on and off numerous times over the past few decades and I have exercised my right to say no on many occasions, so there's that.

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(they allegedly spliffed up in a bathroom in the White House before meeting Nancy Reagan)

^ Ha, yeah! I was going to mention that one!

The Smash Hits archive currently has nearly all the issues from 1986, and almost every issue has some sort of anti-smack advert in it.

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Arkwright FTW.