Dan Charnas, in The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, relates that after a recording session with the Harlem Underground Band, Paul asked the band to play a "loose funky groove" while his teenaged daughters, Paulette and Tanya, tried out their rhymes.
Sweet Tee's lyrics in this rap have been described as charged with social commentary, as she decries racial prejudice and oppression.
[4] "Vicious Rap" is a ballad of false arrest, where Tanya alludes to the struggles of young African Americans.
[1] In 1982, Tanya and her sister Paulette released another single through Winley Records – “I Believe in the Wheel of Fortune” – this time a funk song.
A few years later, her father Paul's record label folded, as he had a legal dispute about copyright infringements with Afrika Bambataataa.