Dana Dane

he was just here was it a couple of weeks ago did a performance with big mike slick rick

no no dana dane yeah okay that was i'm sorry

that was dana dane i always got them too confused back in the game slick rick and dana dane all right so slick rick got a new project coming out and he's doing a he's shooting a video it's called uh bad man generation and he got your boy with him uh idris elba in the video so I think that's kind of cool you know whoever would have thought but you know what they both from the same place that's what I

was just about to say

so it only makes sense that they do this and I think Slick Rick was like yeah man let's do it but he got Idris Elba like they're

That was Slick Rick with the eyepatch.

Yeah, that's right.

Dana Dane didn't have that.

I wanted to be, dude, I wanted to be the R&B version of Slick Rick.

So even long before when I was doing demo tapes, I was rapping like Dana Dane.

I was rapping like a storyteller with, you know, I think I had that whole thing of.

That whole just storyteller rap thing was just I wanted to be that.

And la-di-da-di, this man could not see, at least out of his right eye, which was now pretty mangled from the glass.

At age 11, Ricky and his family moved from London to the Bronx, where during high school Ricky met fellow student by the name of Dana Dane.

The two became close friends, and in a 1984 talent showcase, they met another fella by the name of Doug E.

Fresh.

It is 55-year-old Slick Rick playing 18-year-old Slick Rick

... and, uh...

Yeah, and Dana, Dana Dane.

And she's saying, like, this was before any of these gu- guys got famous.

This is pre super gangster rap.

So the gangsters was playing Dana Dane.

They was playing Biz Markie, Pickin' Boogers.

They was playing BD Plead.