Opening with Treat Her Like A Prostitute is wild lol. I expected everything to be like Children’s Story. Saw the track list, I’m like damn nikka hard on hoes lolThinking about it now, thing about this album that's crazy is how Rick had tracks like Treat Her Like A Prostitute and Moment I Feared next to Teenage Love and Hey Young World and nobody ever questioned it
But that's the greatness of it
Discuss: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick in 2022
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Trot LaRoc
Superstar
Rikk is one of the few 80s rappers i listen to somewhat regularly....very underrated
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Hailed as a classic debut by British born but moved as a child to Queen’s Bridge Projects in New York, Slick Rick The Ruler. Not only carries a British accent but also legacy that stretches from influencing Nas, being interpolated by Jay-Z and sampled by Kanye West.
An album who’s originality and playfulness is loud as it’s programmed antiquated sounding drums that aid in bringing Ricky D’s narratives to life in our minds.
Slick Rick’s debut album consist about infidelity from women, teenage heartbreak, and humorous tale on catching crabs. Advising and enlightening the youth of pursuing goals, appreciating Ma Dukes, and faith. Other animated songs, even interpolated Dionne Warwick’s Walk On By and wrapping up the album with telling us to lick the balls with traditional braggadocio verses.
Arguably his biggest hit, “Children’s Story” a cautionary tale of robbing old folks and duking it out with the police leading to an early death. A song I have known for years what I honestly only knew him for the longest in my earlier teen years. Always liked it.
Not only do you get to see this master of ceremonies’ prominent skill as a storyteller but his craftiness with the use of infliction in his flow to give other characters in his rhymes equal presence. They become supporting casts to Ricky D’s tales. The complete opposite of the spectrum to Former Aftermath signee and ex G-Unit member’s The Game use of name drops that work as brief cameos of snapshots in our mind.
10/10 Oros is the score I’m giving it.
My future hypothetical children will hear this record.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
DaveyDave
Superstar
Weirdest thing about Rick's career is why he never followed up Art of Storytelling. That was a borderline classic album and sold very well even though Def Jam only pushed one single. And you know bug name guests and producers were always gonna line up to work with him
Can you imagine a 2002 Slick Rick album with Kanye, Just and the Hitmen producing?
Just Blaze has too much shyt going on in his beats for Rick to shine properly. Kanye would fukk it up just like he did for Nas. Hitboy, Alchemist, Madlib, Roc Marci, I think he would shine over that type of sounds.
lmao u the goat.
The Moment I Feared was my favorite song on the album
I remember when he referenced 'Veronica Place, that's right near Tilden" I bugged out, because that was a few blocks away from me when I was growing up.
Big up to Walt Whitman Jr. High
I remember when he referenced 'Veronica Place, that's right near Tilden" I bugged out, because that was a few blocks away from me when I was growing up.
Big up to Walt Whitman Jr. High
You want a track by track?
"Don't, don't,, don't... heard me again..."
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Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Review the lp nikka.
fukk chu mean.
You nikkaz wanna be legends. Review the work.
Art Barr
Take It In Blood
Banned
Rozay was born in 1999 and heard this album for the first time last night
Tmrw, I’m at work and then I work my second job afterwards