The Great Adventures of Slick Rick | ||||
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Released | November 1, 1988[1] | |||
Genre | Golden age hip hop | |||
Length | 49:46 | |||
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The Great Adventures of Slick Rick is the debut studio album by hip hop recording artist Slick Rick, released on November 1, 1988.
It topped Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for five nonconsecutive weeks and peaked at number 31 on the Billboard 200.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Mojo | [3] |
NME | 7/10[4] |
Q | [5] |
Rolling Stone | [6] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
Select | 4/5[8] |
The Source | 5/5[9] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10[10] |
The Village Voice | C+[11] |
In 1998, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick was selected as one of The Source's "100 Best Albums".[12] The album was retrospectively awarded a perfect "five-mic" score by the magazine in 2002.[9] In 2012, it was ranked at number 99 on Slant Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s".[13] In VH1's 2008 ranking of the "100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs", the single "Children's Story" placed at number 61.[14]
Hip hop artist Nas cites The Great Adventures of Slick Rick as one of his favorite albums.[15] In 2009, fellow rapper Busta Rhymes said of the album:
No artist before or since has painted pictures as vividly as Slick Rick did on that album. He embodied what it was to be a superstar: the over-the-top persona, the jewellery, the clothes, his swagger, charisma, attitude. He had that London twang and the mannerisms, but still had the 'hood mentality – the urban, edgy approach. Nobody else had that combination.[16]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Treat Her Like a Prostitute" | Ricky Walters | Slick Rick | 3:55 |
2. | "The Ruler's Back" | Ricky Walters | Jam Master Jay, Jerry Martin | 5:38 |
3. | "Children's Story" | Ricky Walters | Slick Rick | 4:02 |
4. | "The Moment I Feared" |
| The Bomb Squad | 3:36 |
5. | "Let's Get Crazy" |
| The Bomb Squad | 3:51 |
6. | "Indian Girl (An Adult Story)" | Ricky Walters | Slick Rick | 3:17 |
7. | "Teenage Love" |
| Jerry Martin | 4:53 |
8. | "Mona Lisa" | Ricky Walters | Slick Rick, Jerry Martin | 4:08 |
9. | "Kit (What's the Scoop)" |
| Jerry Martin | 3:22 |
10. | "Hey Young World" | Ricky Walters | Slick Rick | 4:37 |
11. | "Teacher, Teacher" |
| The Bomb Squad | 5:00 |
12. | "Lick the Balls" |
| The Bomb Squad | 3:56 |
Total length: | 49:46 |
No. | Title | Length |
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13. | "Children's Story" (Demo) | 2:49 |
14. | "A Teenage Love" (Demo) | 4:17 |
15. | "Mona Lisa" (Demo) | 3:19 |
16. | "Hey Young World" (Demo) | 4:38 |
17. | "Snakes of the World Today" | 2:39 |
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA)[21] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |