BY JAKE PAINE • APRIL 27, 2019

Slick Rick is currently celebrating the 30th-anniversary of his debut album, The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick. Last year, the Bronx, New York representative worked with his former label, Def Jam Records, on a special deluxe edition reissue of that platinum 1988 release which contains hits such as “Children’s Story,” “Mona Lisa,” and “Hey Young World,” along with two previously unreleased songs. Notably, the LP produced by Rick, Jam Master Jay, as well as The Bomb Squad’s Hank Shocklee and Eric “Vietnam” Sadler includes some humorous elements which added to Rick Walters’ many charms.

Recently appearing on The Power 106 morning show, MC Ricky D opened up about bringing those comedic elements of Rap to the widespread masses. He tells Daily Dose hosts Noah Ayala and Teddy Mora about the tactic that him stand out in Hip-Hop. “Back when we came out, there was a certain variety. Each man had their own niche. You had your Rap battles, you had your lover—like LL Cool J’s style, and you had your storytelling and your humor,” Rick says at the top of the conversation. “I just ran with the humor stuff, like Eddie Murphy started rapping or something. So I went that route, and it caught on. People liked it; people love it. It’s like a Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor-type [style] that turned into Hip-Hop. Humor and Rap mixed together created its own lane. I was able to create a lane, and live comfortably—a lil’ somethin’, somethin’.”

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