BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Richard Walters
Description: Vocalist, UK
Known For: “La Di Da Di” and “Hey Young World”.
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Rap, Rock
Location: United Kingdom
Date Born: January 14, 1965
Mitcham, London, England
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Slick Rick
A Grammy-nominated British-American rapper.
Walters is best known for a series of rap recordings during the 980s,including “Children’s Story”, “La Di Da Di” and “Hey Young World”.
In the 1980s he started his career in the Hip-hop scene and most of his well-known songs were recorded in the same decade.
Walters is best known for his voice and unique British accent in the Hip-hop genre. His music has been sampled frequently by other artists; many of these songs have gone on to make hits such as “Creep” by R&B band TLC which was sampled from “Hey Young World”.
Richard Walters rose to stardom in a Zeitgeist known to Hip-hop fans as ‘Golden age hip hop’.
Originally from Mitcham in London, England, Walters moved with his British Jamaican family to The Bronx in 1975 where he met Dana Dane with whom he later formed a hip-hop duo known as the Kangol Crew. Walters received his characteristic eye patch after being blinded in the right eye by broken glass as an infant.
He is largely known for his story raps, such as ‘Children’s Story’ and ‘La Di Da Di’ – “he largely introduced the art of narrative into hip-hop… none of the spinners of picaresque rhymes who followed did it with the same grace or humor.”
Albums include
THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF SLICK RICKY – 1989
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