Slick Rick

Slick Rick (born January 14, 1965) is an East Coast rapper, known for a series of hip hop recordings during the 1980s. Born Richard Walters in South Wimbledon, London, England, he released The Great Adventures of Slick Rick in 1989 while living in New York City. The album attaining platinum status, but Walters was unable to exploit this due to an arrest for attempted murder. Russell Simmons, head of Def Jam records, bailed him out and Walters quickly recorded The Ruler's Back before spending five years in prison. "Ladi Dadi", "Mona Lisa" and Children's Story are among his best known songs, with "Ladi Dadi" being covered nearly word-for-word by Snoop Dogg on his 1993 album Doggystyle.

When Walters was released in 1994, he immediately recorded Behind Bars. In 2002, Walters was arrested by INS agents while performing on a cruise ship in Florida; he was promptly told that he was being deported because he was technically a British citizen; he had been born in London to American parents and moved to the States as a youth. Walters has been continuously refused bail.

Walters's music has frequently been classified as misogyny and/or other hate speech.