Slick Rick at Sony Hall

Ricky Martin Lloyd Walters, better known to the world as Slick Rick, is a Grammy-nominated, English-born performer and the most successful British-American rapper in music history who is known as Hip-Hop?s Greatest Storyteller. Originally from London, the hip-hop veteran began his career in 1983 as a member of Doug E. Fresh?s Get Fresh Crew, pioneering what is referred to as the "Golden Age of Hip- Hop". With four albums to his credit - the landmark The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (1988), The Ruler's Back (1991), Behind Bars (1994) and The Art of Storytelling (1999). Rick has collaborated with a range of musical icons, from Jay-Z and Missy Elliot to Outkast, Mos Def and Aaliyah...

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Ricky Martin Lloyd Walters, better known to the world as Slick Rick, is a Grammy-nominated, English-born performer and the most successful British-American rapper in music history who is known as Hip-Hop?s Greatest Storyteller. Originally from London, the hip-hop veteran began his career in 1983 as a member of Doug E. Fresh?s Get Fresh Crew, pioneering what is referred to as the "Golden Age of Hip- Hop". With four albums to his credit - the landmark The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (1988), The Ruler's Back (1991), Behind Bars (1994) and The Art of Storytelling (1999). Rick has collaborated with a range of musical icons, from Jay-Z and Missy Elliot to Outkast, Mos Def and Aaliyah. His music has been sampled and interpolated over 600 times, by such artists as Beyonce, Beastie Boys, TLC, Nas, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West, Black Star, The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg and Color Me Badd. In the process, he became the most sampled hip-hop artist ever.

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