COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2012
deLANCeY Street Though born in Brooklyn, Dana Dane (aka Dana McLeese) raps with a noticeable English accent, a leftover/imitation, perhaps, of Slick Rick (who was English) when they were in the group Kangol Crew. Dane’s song “Cinderfella Dana Dane” peaked at #11 in 1987 though he hasn’t released an album since ’95. He ran a boutique in the city for a time, published a novel entitled Numbers in 2009 (Ballantine/Random House), and hosts the old school hip-hop radio show “backspin” on Sirius. Recorded in 1986, “Delancey Street” opens with a mock version of what we hear on the intercom when a subway blasts into a station. He’s probably coming into Manhattan over the Williamsburg Bridge and getting out at Delancey, the first stop. With a beat and attitude like the opening song of the TV show Prince of Bel-Air, “Delancey Street” is a bouncy, playful little rap (“I’ll make you tickle, make your butt wiggle/ You’ll tell your friends, and they’ll chuckle and giggle”) about going to
“Delancey Street/ where clothes are bought and people meet.” Three girls approach him, one white, one black, and one Chinese. At first they flirt, then pull out guns and demand his gold chains, his Gucci shades, his Vuitton jacket, even his Bally’s. Dana runs to Orchard Street but they’re already waiting for him, so he gives in, but when he opens his jacket “Printed on my shirt, yes, there’s bold and plain/ ‘I’m not the one, the Rapper Dana Dane.’ ” Now the girls know it’s him, and if you’re not hip to what happens next I’m not telling. And I’m not kidding.
^^ DANA DANE
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