This for my niggas tho. “Special Delivery” it is not.
This video is a solemn cry for help. This is that Eddie Kane Five Heartbeats moment where he busts out the old routine in the alley and wholeheartedly reaffirms his manhood.
“I been rappin every day. I’m back, baby… Aight.
Well, fuck you then! Can’t nobody get your wrists all glittery like G.
Motherfuckin’ Dep!”
For those who don’t remember the Harlem Shake Delivery Man, his two turn of the century hits “Let’s Get It” and “Special Delivery”–two and a half if you count the Special Delivery Remix–injected
life and jiggle into a deflated Harlem scene. Dep’s unorthodox delivery
and distinctively clever wordplay had people checking for a Bad Boy release for the first time since…
Since…
I don’t know. Child of the Ghetto was my first Bad Boy purchase since Harlem World.
After enjoying a nice tenure on the 106 & Park crapsicle
leaderboard, Dep would hand the Uptown baton to the curious Pink Tee
Posse. Actually, he’d crack out and go to jail without passing “Go” or
collecting any of his royalties. That’s more akin to running at full
speed, slipping on a banana peel, landing in a flaming trash can on an
AIDS-infected syringe and dropping the baton onto a gutter storm drain
to be serendipitously discovered by the Pink Tee Posse.
Yeah, that’s it.
“King of Harlem,” Dep’s
still-got-the-scent-of-the-box-on-it clip implies he’s back atop a
throne he’s never sat in. If such a man defines Harlem royalty, I’m
ashamed to be a loyal subject. Big L’s hovering
ghost–who still haunts the townspeople with punchlines–will always
carry more weight than Dep. Clearly, I mean that figuratively. No
one carries more weight than The Deputy.
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