Released on 18/09/2000
Label: Polydor

Iceberg Slimm is the UK's latest great black dope in the world of big bucks rap latte but on this basis Puffy don't have a great deal to get worried about.

Fussily quickfire yet desperately uninspired, 'Nursery Rhymes' is an awkward mix of the now obligatory self-aggrandisement and an over-cute kiddies singsong ramming home Iceberg's ridiculously cliched tag - I'm presuming 'Iceberg Slimm' refers to the pimp turned author and not just some kind of lettuce.

With a lame narrative amounting to little more than 'Hi, I may be black but I'm British', only the melody line could possibly redeem this single.

Sensing though that tuneswise Iceberg ain't even no MC Hammer, his PR resorts to telling us that he's 6'3''. Must come in handy that for when they're clutching at straws.

    by Jackie Flynn