Dee Dee King - Standing in the Spotlight (w/ Hayley Valencia)

Our latest exploration of mid-life crisis inspired genre experimentation leads us to Dee Dee Ramone aka Dee Dee King's 1989 punk-rap flop Standing In The Spotlight. Replete with climaxless tales of surfing and wrestling, as well as cringeworthy chronicles of his failing marriage, all delivered in a cartoonish tenor recalling hip-hop classics like "The Monster Mash", Standing In The Spotlight is undoubtedly one of the most head-scratching entries into the Make It Stop ouvre. Joining Mike and Heather to try to make sense of it all is Hayley Valencia, bassist of all-trans queercore punk powerhouses WIMP and resident Dee Dee King expert of the Greater Boston Area. How does it stack up against the rest of the ill-conceived rap projects we've covered in our few short months as a podcast? Find out this week on Make It Stop! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices