The Show (Doug E. Fresh song)

While one 1985 critic for Spin included the song in a list of "stupid music"—making fun of Doug E. Fresh's lyrics about his shoes, and calling Slick Rick's sendup of "Michelle" "pathetic"—he still concluded that the single is "the shit".

[7] Even when it became only the fourth rap single ever to reach gold record status, the same reviewer stated that it only proved that "talk isn't always cheap".

Chris Rock, who starred in both these films, would later have Slick Rick perform the song live to introduce his HBO special Bigger & Blacker.

In response to the song's popularity, Hurby Azor and his female hip hop group, Super Nature recorded a diss track entitled "The Showstopper".

from The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) which itself was referenced in the single "Rap God" from the sequel to the same album released in 2013 with the intro featuring Eminem saying "Six minutes Slim Shady, you're on" in the background.