Peak
15
Weeks
20
Score
2,581
Chart Year
1993
Scores & Rankings
Chart Performance
Peak Position15
Peak DateMar 6, 1993
Weeks at Peak1
Weeks Charted20
Weeks in Top 4013
Weeks in Top 100
Weeks at #20
Weeks at #10
Scoring
Summary Calc866
Weekly Calc1,715
Total Score2,581
Rankings
Year Ranking#83
Decade Ranking#793
Billboard Year#87
Top 5000#5,102
Details
Music Video
Notes
"Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" is a song by American hip hop trio Digable Planets, released as the first single from their debut album, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), in November 1992. The black-and-white music video was directed by Morgan Lawley.[1] The song contains a sample from "Stretching" by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers.[original research?] "Rebirth of Slick" peaked at No. 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 during the week of March 6, 1993, becoming the group's only top-40 single. During that time, the song also topped the Hot Rap Singles chart. The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 16, 1993, for sales of 500,000 copies. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 36th Grammy Awards. In 2021, Cleveland.com ranked the song as number 142 of the best 200 rap songs, calling it "the pinnacle of jazz rap.
"Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" We like the breeze flow straight out of our lids Them they got moved by these hard-rock Brooklyn kids Us floor rush when the DJ's booming classics You, dig the crew on the fattest hip-hop records He touch the kinks and sinks into the sounds She frequents the fattest joints caught underground Our funk zooms like you hit the Mary Jane They flock to booms man boogie had to change Who freaks the clips with mad amount percussion Where kinky hair goes to unthought-of dimensions Why's it so fly cause hip-hop kept some drama When Butterfly rocked his light blue-suede Pumas What by the cut we push it off the corner How was the buzz entire hip hop era Was fresh and fat since they started saying outtie Cause funks made fat from right beneath my hoodie The poobah of the styles like Miles and shit Like sixties funky worms with waves and perms Just sendin' chunky rhythms right down ya block We be to rap what key be to lock But I'm cool like dat I'm cool like dat I'm cool like dat I'm cool like dat I'm cool like dat I'm cool like dat I'm cool like dat I'm cool We be the chocolates taps on my raps She innovates after sweeter cat naps He at the funk club with the vibrate Them they be crazy down with the five plate It can kick a plan then a crowd burst Me I be digging it with a bump verse Us we be freaking til dawn blinks an eye He gives the strangest smile so I say hi (wassup) Who understood, yeah understood the plans Him heard a beat and put it to his hands What I just flip let borders get loose How to consume or they'll be just like juice If it's the shit we'll lift it off the plastic The babes'll go spastic, Hip hop gains a classic Pimp playing shock it don't matter I'm fatter Ask Butta how I zone (man Cleopatra Jones) And I'm chill like dat I'm chill like dat I'm chill like dat I'm chill like dat I'm chill like dat I'm chill like dat I'm chill like dat I'm chill Blink..blink..blink... Think..think..think... We getcha free cause the clips be fat boss Them they're the jams and commence to going off She sweats the beat and ask me cause she puffed it Me I got crew kids seven and a crescent Us cause a buzz when the nickel bags are dealt Him, that's my man with the asteroid belt They catch a fizz from the Mr. Doodle-big He rocks a tee from the Crooklyn nine-pigs The rebirth of slick like my gangsta stroll The lyrics just like loot come in stacks and rolls You used to find a Bug in a box with fade Now he boogies up your stage plaits twist or braids And I'm peace like dat I'm peace like dat I'm peace like dat I'm peace like dat I'm peace like dat I'm peace like dat I'm peace like dat I'm peace Check it out man I groove like dat I'm smooth like dat I jive like dat I roll like dat Yeah I'm thick like dat I stack like dat I'm down like dat I'm black like dat Well yo I funk like dat I'm phat like dat I'm in like dat Cause I swing like dat We jazz like dat We freak like dat We zoom like dat We out, we out...
Chart History (20 weeks)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 16, 1993 | 85 | 41 |
| 2 | Jan 23, 1993 | 50 | 76 |
| 3 | Jan 30, 1993 | 30 | 96 |
| 4 | Feb 6, 1993 | 20 | 106 |
| 5 | Feb 13, 1993 | 19 | 107 |
| 6 | Feb 20, 1993 | 16 | 110 |
| 7 | Feb 27, 1993 | 17 | 109 |
| 8 | Mar 6, 1993 | 15 | 111 |
| 9 | Mar 13, 1993 | 21 | 105 |
| 10 | Mar 20, 1993 | 26 | 100 |
| 11 | Mar 27, 1993 | 24 | 102 |
| 12 | Apr 3, 1993 | 25 | 101 |
| 13 | Apr 10, 1993 | 27 | 99 |
| 14 | Apr 17, 1993 | 31 | 95 |
| 15 | Apr 24, 1993 | 37 | 89 |
| 16 | May 1, 1993 | 52 | 74 |
| 17 | May 8, 1993 | 61 | 65 |
| 18 | May 15, 1993 | 78 | 48 |
| 19 | May 22, 1993 | 81 | 45 |
| 20 | May 29, 1993 | 90 | 36 |