Biz Markie brought wit and wisdom to rap and beyond for 30-plus years, whether freestyling, beatboxing, rocking the party, or making booger jokes. Rob Sheffield remembers the diabolical genius of rap’s old-school joker king.
, with “Just a Friend,” thedance groove “Mudd Foot,” and “My Man Rich,” the sad tale of a friend turned crack dealer. A weird artifact from those days: Paul Simon decided to make a video for his oldie “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,” starring Biz and Kane, the ultimate NYC flex in 1988.
For Biz, the sad love story in “Just a Friend” was real. “To write a good record, I gotta get depressed,” he toldin 2000. “I was talking to this girl from L.A., and every time I called her, this dude was at her house, and she’d say, ‘Oh, he’s just a friend.’ Ithat.” He meant this song as a forlorn ballad. “But it came out funny,” he said. He tried it out on his friends Q-Tip and De La Soul, and “When I sang the hook, they couldn’t stop laughing — they bugged out.
But after a trial that would take a toll on anyone’s good nature, Biz bounced right back with his flat-out funniest album,No bitterness here, just the Diabolical vowing to rock it from the Billy Ocean to the Al B. Shore. He found a new theme song withtaking off on “Singing in the Rain,” singing hooks from Springsteen to Judy Garland. Biz beatboxes his way through it, saying, “Me and rap is like peanut butter and jelly/Which reminds me of a song by my man Gene Kelly.
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