''The Great Adventures of Slick Rick'' is the debut

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by hip hop recording artist

Slick Rick Richard Martin Lloyd Walters (born January 14, 1965), better known as Slick Rick, is an English-American rapper and record producer. He rose to prominence with Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew in the mid-1980s. Their songs " The Show" and " ...

, released on November 1, 1988. It topped ''

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''s

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chart for five nonconsecutive weeks and peaked at number 31 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

Reception

In 1998, ''The Great Adventures of Slick Rick'' was selected as one of ''

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''s "100 Best Albums". The album was retrospectively awarded a perfect " five-mic" score by the magazine in 2002. In 2012, it was ranked at number 99 on ''

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''s list of "The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s". In VH1's 2008 ranking of the " 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs", the single "

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" placed at number 61. Hip hop artist

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cites ''The Great Adventures of Slick Rick'' as one of his favorite albums. In 2009, fellow rapper

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said of the album: :

Track listing

Personnel

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—photography *

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(as Jam Master Jay)—producer *Eric "Vietnam" Sadler—producer *Hank Shocklee—producer *Slick Rick—vocals *Ricky Walters—producer *

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—executive producer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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