Have you ever seen a show with fellas on the mic with one minute rhymes that don’t come out right? Well, pioneering rapper Slick Rick had a lot of things that didn’t come out right. The biggest of which was the U.S. government who hated him and sought him out at every turn.
The story of Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) makes the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history because, well, his bodyguard tried to kill him so Rick grabbed a gun, as rappers sometimes do, and went out and managed to shoot a few of the wrong people. The government then spent decades trying to deport him like Tony the Tiger.
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