Standing in the Spotlight

Standing in the Spotlight is the first solo studio album by Dee Dee Ramone, released in 1989 under the rap moniker Dee Dee King. The album is sometimes considered to be one of the biggest failures in recording history.

Musically, the songs vary from old school hip hop and doo-wop (e.g., "Mashed Potato Time", "Commotion In The Ocean") to rock and roll (e.g., "Baby Doll") and punk rock (e.g. "Poor Little Rich Girl", "The Crusher"). In an article for The Village Voice in 2014, Chaz Kangas wrote that the album "sound less like a rap record and more like a Ramones album that has rapping on it".