Sometimes I Read Slow, Sometimes I Read Quick

Nice & Smooth is an East Coast hip hop duo from New York City that consists of Gregory O. “Greg Nice” Mays and Darryl O. “Smooth B” Barnes plus their deejay Tedd “DJ Teddy Tedd” Whiting. Like most music I took a fancy to, my older brothers had introduced them to me.

Back in the 90s I took no offense when Nice & Smooth proclaimed I was a Hip Hop Junkie. To this day I play Sometimes I Rhyme Slow, a short and sweet track layered with tragedy interwoven with the thinly dispersed and melanchol...