"It can always be transformed into an avenue of information"
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Coming from Slick Rick, the line lands with extra bite because his whole legacy is built on info delivery disguised as entertainment. He’s the guy who made rap feel like cinema, packing plots, character voices, and cautionary twists into songs people first came to for swagger. The subtext is almost defensive: don’t underestimate what looks like style. In hip-hop, “information” isn’t a TED Talk; it’s survival data, social commentary, the rules of a block, the emotional math of betrayal, the cost of desire. Rick’s stories smuggle that in.
The word “always” is the flex. It suggests there’s no dead end, no experience too messy or trivial to be repurposed. That’s a worldview shaped by an era when rap was still arguing for its legitimacy, when storytellers had to prove they weren’t just partying on wax. Rick answers by reframing the entire game: the medium is the message, and the message can be extracted from anything if you’re sharp enough to tell it right.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Rick, Slick. (2026, January 15). It can always be transformed into an avenue of information. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-can-always-be-transformed-into-an-avenue-of-164567/
Chicago Style
Rick, Slick. "It can always be transformed into an avenue of information." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-can-always-be-transformed-into-an-avenue-of-164567/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It can always be transformed into an avenue of information." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-can-always-be-transformed-into-an-avenue-of-164567/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.


