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MC Lyte Paper Thin Lyrics
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Artist/Group: MC Lyte • Album: Lyte as a Rock • Released: 1988 • Label: First Priority Music/Atlantic Records • Watch the Official Video of this song • MC Lyte - Paper Thin (Official Video) • -------------------------------------------------- • Paper Thin is the third single from MC Lyte's debut album Lyte as a Rock. It is produced by King of Chill, who along with Lyte has songwriting credits. • The song, which is about Lyte confronting her boyfriend over infidelity, became an underground hit, selling 125,000 copies in the first six months with virtually no radio play. • In 2003, The Source placed Paper Thin No. 24 in their list Top 151 Rap Songs of All-Time . In April 2013, the song was included No. 8 on Complex's The 50 Best Rap Songs by Women list. Paper Thin was ranked No. 23 on About.com's The 100 Best Rap Songs of All Time list. • The song has also been covered/reinterpreted by other rappers like Bahamadia, Puff Daddy and Missy Elliott. • In an interview with Rolling Stone, MC Lyte says she wrote the lyrics to Paper Thin in her rhyme book long before recorded the song probably '82 at 12 or 13 years old. Lyte also tells that the lyrics are not based on her own personal experiences. • (...) I didn’t have my first boyfriend until I was 14. But it was just pulling things from what I had seen, what I had heard. It’s amazing what a kid can learn in the company of adults and just listening to them talk. • Paper Thin was produced by King of Chill of the rap group Alliance, who also has songwriting credits. According to an interview with King of Chill in 2019, the initial production work was done in his family's apartment with a Alesis drum machine, and followed by mixing at Firehouse Studio in Brooklyn Heights. The producer has also stated that the success of the song was a dream come true • The goal when you start rappin' is to be the coolest dude on your block and in the neighborhood. But after a while, you tryin' to be heard in the clubs that you frequent, which is Latin Quarter, Union Square, Rooftop, places like that. At the point to now we can hand the record to the deejay, and it's not a hassle for them to play it. You couldn't be nobody and hand the record to the deejay. So we get to Paper Thin , and he puts it on, and it's just lightin' up the dance floor, that was the greatest thing! Not only that, we had a video to support it on Video Music Box, which was our MTV, that was the greatest. • The song contains samples of Prince's 17 Days guitar riff, Al Green's I'm Glad You're Mine 's drum, and Earth, Wind Fire's Shining Star hook. The song also has a chorus interpolation from Ray Charles' Hit the Road Jack , in which Lyte changes Jack to Sam. • Paper Thin was included in her compilation albums The Very Best of MC Lyte (2001), The Shit I Never Dropped (2003), Rhyme Masters (2005), and Cold Rock a Party - Best Of MC Lyte (2019). The single has also been reissued in 2003. • In 1996, Bahamadia recorded a cover of the song. • MF Doom has made a remix of the song on his remix album Special Blends Volume 1 2 (2004). • MC Lyte performed this song in her tribute at the 2006 VH1 Hip Hop Honors. • In the book That's the Joint !: The Hip Hop Study Reader (2003), sociologist Tricia Rose commented on the song: • MC Lyte's underground hit, Paper Thin ,is one of the most scathing raps about male dishonesty/infidelity and the tensions between trust and vulnerability. Lyte has been burned by Sam, but she has turned her experience into a black woman's anthem that sustains an uncomfortable balance between brutal cynicism and honest vulnerability (...) Lyte's public acknowledgment that Sam's expressions of love were paper thin is not a source of embarrassment for her, but a means of empowerment. Lyte presents commitment, vulnerability and sensitivity as assets, not indicators of female weakness. • Hip hop magazine The Source joked that the song Introduced toe sucking to an unwitting generation In June 2012, WQHT's Peter Rosenberg would review the song for Complex commenting Classic beat, classic Lyte.(...) MC Lyte is the number one female MC of all time. And it’s exemplified of ‘Paper Thin For the same media Rob Kenner reviewed MC Lyte is one of the greatest rappers of any gender in hip-hop history ( ...) Aside from the battle rap 10% Dis, the album's standout track was this song, in which Lyte puts a two-timing loverboy in check. Unconcerned with inflaming her listeners' sexual urges, Lyte was always confident that her lyrics were more than enough. • -------------------------------------------------- • Follow Us: • https://www.hhbars.com • / realhhbars • / realhhbars • / realhhbars • #mclyte #raplyrics #hiphoplyrics #lyrics
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