Twisted Tales: Slick Rick's Life of Cousin-Shooting, Incarceration and Deportation

Filed under: Twisted TalesIt was a simple little nursery-school rhyme that Ricky Walters busted off for his friend, beatboxer Doug E. Fresh: "La-di-da-di, we like to party/We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody." Two decades later, he's still trying to get the U.S. government to believe him.The hip-hop career of Slick Rick has been weighed down by more shackles and chains than the bling pioneer could ever have imagined. His attempted-murder rap was only the beginning. Born in London to J...

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