Hip-hop in the 1980s was a wonderfully weird scene. No one quite epitomized that creative weirdness as totally as the eyepatch-wearing, "truck jewelry"-festooned, British-sounding kid from the Bronx known as Slick Rick (a.k.a. Rick the Ruler, MC Ricky D). "Children's Story," the second single from Slick Rick's classic debut album The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, remains one of the high points of hip-hop's golden age.
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