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DOUG E. FRESH: "PROFILE RECORDS CALLED 'LA-DI-DA-DI' AND 'THE SHOW' GARBAGE"
Doug E. Fresh was a recent guest on the Willie D Live podcast, where he revealed that independent label Profile Records called The Get Fresh Crew's 1985 smash single "The Show, La-Di-Da-Di" garbage. "We made 'La-Di-Da-Di' a year or so before it came out, and we were already doing it at shows," he said. "
Doug said further that before securing a deal with Reality Records, the Get Fresh Crew shopped "The Show" and "La-Di-Da-Di" to Profile Records (the home of Run-DMC, Sweet Tee, Dana Dane and DJ Quik). "Profile was the mecca of Hip-Hop at the time, and they said: 'Both of these records are garbage,'" he recalled.
According to Doug, the owner of Profile didn't like Slick Rick's voice, or Doug's beatboxing on the monumental songs. "He said: 'That guy doesn't even sound right rapping, and what's that sound in the background? I don't understand.'" Doug says that after a deal was secured for the songs, he encountered the Profile executive in the Roxy nightclub where he expressed regret for passing on the then popular songs.
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