I’m surprised to hear a song like this from KRS-One. It’s a story about him having sex with a 13-year-old girl, which, as far as the law is concerned, makes him a rapist. That’s despite the fact that she didn’t bother to tell him her age until he asked. By then it was too late. They’d already fucked and she’d already fallen in love. “I want to be with you forever,” she tells him.

It’s a tricky predicament and a serious issue for men who go to parties looking for sex, but KRS-One handles it with misplaced satire by getting the girl’s Pops involved and ending the story with an outrageous twist. What her father does is possible but extremely unlikely under the circumstances. It’s a major turn-off on a song that was relatively believable until that point.

my rating : 3 of 5

1992