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Slick Rick in 2017, kathclick /bigstock.com
Birth Name: Ricky Martin Lloyd Walters
Place of Birth: Surrey North Eastern, Surrey, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 14 January, 1965
Ethnicity: African-Jamaican
Slick Rick is a British-American rapper and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of storytelling in hip-hop, and is one of the most sampled hip-hop artists. He is also known as Rick the Ruler and MC Ricky D.
Slick Rick is the son of Veronica Hyman and Melton Walters, who both emigrated to England from Jamaica. When he was eleven years old, the family moved to Baychester, The Bronx, New York. Slick Rick is married to Mandy Aragones, and has two children. He became a U.S. citizen in 2016.
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