Slick Rick Talks With Bevy Smith At YouTube Studio

KZbin x "Slick Rick Is Art" Presents Can't Dance & Midas Touch music video premiere hosted by Bevy Smith.
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[@robertfields3420]

He got a whole cutting board on his neck 😂 old school swagg

[@ikeknight3535]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight soooooooo dope

[@beautifulwright6679]

Lmmao...he has a whole collection of jewels....through out all of his tribes and tribulations here in the states....rick was born in London I believe but ...NYC put all that up in there his swag is his own....real talk

[@jimbeam5636]

@@beautifulwright6679 hes British, born in mitcham, United kingdom...( I didn't pay attention in school so I don't know if that has anything to do with London)

[@elvinparker248]

Gun gotta be big too

[@GHedge]

Rick Jewel Game is Uncontrollable!!✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾💯💯💯💯💯

[@baltimorehouse911]

All hail the underrated slept on king. He has his place right with Kane, Rakim, Kool G and KRS. They were and still are all superb MC’s. 🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@justinb954]

most definitely truth . his trip behind bars in 91 not only stole him from us for a few years but its still stealing his place in the top 5 mcs of all time because not enough people know how dope he is. . .

[@theghostwillis8649]

Just add LL and Guru and that's perfect

[@Cashmere.Kufi_88]

You right they're the Fab 5 for real running shit mid 80s to early 9-0

[@Aziz.Hakim.]

LL AND BLACK THOUGHT!

[@blazebaby89]

Owns his own masters 👏👏👏👏

[@justinb954]

"i hope he has them all" (Except maybe his 2nd one) lol I say that because early Def Jam were crooks that stole every nickle of the beastie boys 1st album. and its diamond 10+ million.

[@guitaro5000]

Back in my day, masters used to own you! What's the world coming to?

[@ikeknight3535]

That's very rare

[@ROBBSTAR76]

What is masters ?

[@b1slee267]

@@ROBBSTAR76 like the rights to your songs

[@karlosandrews9024]

SLICK RICK SET THE BAR REALLY HIGH.

[@justinb954]

he sure did. his first albums style is still being copied.

[@ikeknight3535]

How tho? I mean I was born in 89 sooo I probably wouldn't understand 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@JukeboxBalowski]

Been listening to Slick Rick since I was 10 years old!

[@justinb954]

Derek is his 1st record not a full blown classic? Every track is a hit like THRILLER. were kinda close in age but in 1987 or 88 his tape stayed in my walkman. He was the first to be comedic on a rap album. I was crushed when he went behind bars.

[@JukeboxBalowski]

@@justinb954 I LOVED his debut album and all his music! When I started listening to Slick Rick, almost no one in my neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn NY had much familiarity with rap music and nobody in my school had heard of him or his songs. So my classmates came to the conclusion that Slick Rick was my imaginary friend. I insisted that he was real but they'd just laugh at me, and would jokingly ask me if I was hanging out with my buddy Slick Rick last night 😂. Finally after a few months I brought in my Slick Rick cassette and everyone was shocked! They all said "What? He's actually a REAL person"?? LOL

[@justinb954]

LOL -your a cool dude!That album hit me at just the right time, i was with my 1st love & also What I loved was his sense of humor. (Indian girl) + his off key singing (like ODB did so well 8-9 yrs later) he even talked about having a job! how many MCs have ever said that? BTW --yo, my whole fam was from right next store to you. IN sheepshead bay!! lol Also andy warhol when to sheepshead bay high. We were lucky to be there from the beginning of Both the 1st and 2nd raps golden eras.

[@James-rd8lg]

Slick Rick the LEGEND!!!! You definitely still got it god I would love to hear even more new music from you 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@DarkshadowXD63]

RIck really set the standard for story telling and fashion for rappers he deserves a lot of props

[@DeeWunnHybrid]

The first cassette I ever owned was *The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick* this man literally taught me how to rhyme AND tell stories….my fav OG of all time …bless up RULER 🙏🏾🔥🇯🇲👑

[@baltimorehouse911]

Slick Rick with Doug E Fresh was the first music that really made me love hip-hop. We had a party in elementary school. I remember Lodi Dodi was on fire 🔥

[@justinb954]

ditto - i was in like 5th or 6th grade and they used the 'Inspector gadget' sample on the show - so we just loved it all. they have made soooooooooo much money off of sample use from the show & la di da di it kept ricks pockets full while incarcerated. Snoop covered lodi dodi on his 1st album and that record went diamond plus 1 million. 11 mil and still selling. now thats love.

[@TheDeepEnd303]

I was just listening to "The Art of Storytelling" the other day thinking "damn, its been 20 years, it doesn't look like we're ever gonna get another Slick Rick album". PLEASE tell me we're gonna get a LP. Everything this man has dropped is a classic.

[@justinb954]

DID you check out the outkast /uncle rickys remix of 'the art of storytelling'?? it was on his or an outcast record. in was released only as a maxi single. they made a cool video with Muppets. slick kills it.

[@JERZGIRL201]

Platform wallabees!!!! I respect him for ALWAYS standing out when it came to his style. Never has he ever been a follower of fashion. 💕

[@varisstrachan305]

Swag at its finest

[@varisstrachan305]

His own lane of swag........gotta love SR

[@elvinparker248]

First time seeing those

[@canalabandonado6433]

You are my favorite rapper!

[@zolo6082]

Thanks

[@mikesahiry]

sound like he rapping when he is talking

[@alliekolasa465]

Thats how u can tell the shit come natural dunn.Styles P is like that too

[@lxrdfreeflxw1291]

dammmmmm homie flosssssing big lol uncal Slick Rick

[@SilvaFoxMC]

Peace to Rick the Ruler and props to Xtra P in the audience showing love.💯

[@LittleJurlegogod]

Love u slick rick forever

[@manhbx96]

Slick Rick one of my favorite MCs EVER

[@Ladywoodley1984]

Bruhhhh I'm 37 I never knew this man was British born to the United kingdom💯💪🏿😍 I hear it learned it today and I have never been so amazed❗❗❗

[@ariesblue1193]

ALWAYS THE RULER🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@baltimorehouse911]

MC’s were very original! They was flossin with their own signature personas/personalities

[@LindaEvansQueenofRadio]

I love her line of questions for Slick Rick. The style is called being Pimp-Fabulous, that's an old school term we use to live by and still do in 2021. Holla. That green is wearing him.

[@mightyraccoon7155]

That neck chain is bad ass

[@icon73291]

That trying to hold a ball under water analogy 💯💯

[@beautifulwright6679]

I have to say.....in all of these times you're the best...I straight up rocked with Rick since the early 80's....he's the best. Period

[@ArtofZenDigital]

I’m so happy that she mentioned Lodi Dodi’s historic record for being the most sampled from Hip Hop song in history. Slick Rick is exceptionally kind to his fans as well, so this it’s great to see the Legends stay fresh like this. His voice is iconic, his flow is iconic, his vibe is iconic, and it’s rare to someone who comes into the game with all of these things in place. The thing new artists lack, as a Dj of new and classic Hip Hop, RnB, and Pop, is longevity. The newer artists also have such a manufactured style that when a label decides they’re mo longer in favor, they manufacture another artist to fill that void. Look at Slick Rick, you could always bump his hits and get love through every genre from its original release until now. Children’s Story may be old, but it never sounds old. Think about any song you hear all the time on the radio now, it’s hot for a min, but if you get caught playing it even one to two years after it comes out, you look out of touch. You can still bump the top 90s Hip Hop artists into new school DJ set, but again, if you want to stay hot, even playing Cardi B’s Money is seen as whack 7 months after it came out. That shows you in real time how most of it isn’t going to hold up. You could still get people to grind to LL Cool J’s Doin’ It, now give it a few more months and City Girl’s Twerk and Act Up, which are still somewhat hot now, won’t even pack dance floors. They won’t be played 10 years from now and still seen as hot. It’s not 2Pac and Notorious B.I.G. dying that made them icons, PAC sold 6 million plus copies of All Eyez On Me while he was alive, and it’s sold well beyond diamond now. It was packed with hits, How Do U Want It, California Love, Scandalous, All About U, I Ain’t Mad At Cha, All Eyez On Me, Picture Me Rollin’, and I can keep going. It’s the same thing with Life After Death, only the second Hip Hop double CD after All Eyez On Me. Basically, now it’s a singles driven market, so most Hip Hop artists don’t care about crafting an album with different moods for different kinds of Hip Hop fans. It’s mostly all trap beats, even if you’re a New York rapper, an LA rapper, Up North or Down South Rapper. The beats are so easy to blend with new rappers that it doesn’t take the same Dj I.Q to blend almost any current Rap song into another one. It does take skill to blend classic Hip Hop and RnB into current RnB and Hip Hop and maintain the right vibe because some old school artists don’t sound right being played before or after current artists. You might get away with putting DaBaby after B.I.G. in a smaller venue with mostly younger Rap fans, but in the right club, it’ll get you side eyed for disrespecting a legend, and that would be warranted.

[@Hysteria98]

It's a tired message, but it's a tired argument against all the bullshit in the music industry for the past 13+ years and you voice it so brilliantly. I recently came across Sticky Fingaz' debut LP and could not believe what I was hearing and yet of course, WHY have i never heard of it? 2001, mind you, but one of the greatest HipHop albums i've ever heard and gobsmacked nobody else talks about it.

[@justinb954]

@@Hysteria98 1999-2002 was a hell of a hard time for music because of NAPSTER & free downloading albums. And maybe because he wasn't with ONYX ? They were a brand new style. Then Sticky was always more prevalent than the rest. in movies and in onyx.

[@justinb954]

@@Hysteria98 i hope you got ricks album from 98 or 99

[@justinb954]

@Hysteria98 -- OH YEAH_ At the time i was in the biz 95-02 and I saw him & his wife at Roosevelt field mall on long island near queens a few months before his records release and he was nothing but a humbly warm and classy gentleman. I wont approach no-one for autographs but having him sign my album would've been cool but i was a little nervous -therefore absent minded.

[@Hysteria98]

@@justinb954 Still waitin' on number 5...

[@shaolineurope]

Legend

[@lorenzoperry42]

Legend greatest all time goat slick Rick

[@herbertthornton4476]

Love you slick rick....You and G rap are the best lyricists

[@Jophlo78]

Uncle Ricky The ICON✊🏽

[@cvkhufu1951]

This is one of my favorite MC's ever. The Ruler's Back. 👑

[@dooksp]

i see large pro up there, salute slick rick

[@kenf3897]

Da Ruler isn't back ............ he never left ......... WORD !

[@paulgreene6899]

YA' KNOOOOOOOW!!!!!

[@adrianjohnson2287]

Shout out to the LARGE PROFESSOR IN THE AUDIENCE!!!!!!

[@terryterry3582]

Hey young world, talking to the 80/90 babies storytelling n rhymes, and ryhtum.💐🥳🥳👍✌️🙏

[@mr.6812]

He and all of the Jamaican Mastiff made me a fan of the Clark culture.now i can say iam a god of it.i have made clarks all different colors shit crazy over here frfr.

[@williamwooten6156]

I wear mine daily

[@kdub8126]

Why don't you thank the English who made the shoe?

[@mr.6812]

If u ready think about I did cuz I keep buying them @k dub.just got 2 more pairs and got 4 more that I haven't put my foot in yet boss shit my brother I'm killing these cats out here on some grown man type shit💯

[@LindasTreasures]

THANXXX SLICK RICK. $ RESET THE BAR $

[@JKevin1977]

Happy Birthday Slick Rick “You sweet incredible wonderful wonder you” . Your the GOAT. Big ups to Mandy

[@jknumber5138]

The Great Adventure of...is a 💯classic🗽💚🎤

[@jaygee8969]

That chain is seriously serious!!!

[@kennethstanford3520]

What Rappers are doing today Ricky “D” was already doing it in the 80’s

[@brentdemty6859]

Hey young world amazing Rick

[@samuelblinne6040]

Awesome

[@semajb25]

amazing interview

[@fugaziman2838]

Slick Rick is the man

[@twighlightzone4109]

Dope AF tha rulers back✨

[@miller84631]

I love his music you now what i mean😝

[@vonniedagrate3656]

Love his 🗣️ ng voice

[@Rustino44]

"Knock 'em out the box, Rick" Peace to Slick Rick The Ruler ✌️

[@Abundance172]

My favorite rapper of all time

[@POObumpoopo]

Amazing interview! Great flow between them, love Bevy and the Ruler.

[@RicoN.glacius]

Lyrically and stylisticly top 3 of all time. Way ahead of his time.

[@trevorphillips2075]

Been listening to Slick Rick since the 80's I'll be 41 next month

[@DerwinDaDestroyer]

These got to be the shoes LL Cool J was talking about

[@Justice777Allah]

Those are Clarks

[@quranali3093]

@ Derwin da Destroyer Yes they are•An yes they are Clarks•But Specially made like that for Him•ALL of his Wallys are like that now but Idk why•He Must have some kind of Foot Ailment or somethin'•Smh......

[@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551]

When LL said he was wearing white nursing shoes? They are really wallbe Clark's also made popular by Ghostface Killah of Wu Tang.

[@Justice777Allah]

@@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551 huh??? Clarks were made popular by Jamaicans. That is why Rick wears them. Outside of America people associate Clarks with Jamaicans. We have been wearing them since the 40s, and brought the style to NYC. Every New Yorker from those days will attest to this. Even the Wu. I would say the Wu made Hip Hop heads outside of NY know about Clarks. There is even a Clarks commercial about Jamaica, none about the Wu.

[@elvinparker248]

@@Justice777Allah '40's?

[@dneecie3059]

These youngins have no idea who he is

[@elvinparker248]

They know they got the internet

[@Solonghoney]

Shame

[@Smirkless]

So you're telling me then paid a moderately large sum of cash in order to see someone they have no predisposed recollection of

[@PabloEscobar-jb2si]

Im 14 and hes my favourite artist

[@damonadams3853]

PEACE LOVE & BLESSINGS 2 THE RULER 1 OF THE GREATEST KINGS 2 EVER DO THE DAMN THING!!![999]

[@carlosderr6098]

All time fav! Ricky D!

[@alliekolasa465]

I came to see the satellite dish rollie lol

[@executiveproducerkeyiocwol9280]

Pavied cutting bord. Slick Rick the ruler, crumbs

[@Alleyesonme-vy4jq]

The 🐐!!!!

[@lyntiashorter7163]

💚💚💚💚👑Amazing Interview Slick Rick the Ruler is just a 💎 😊#HipHop

[@sinokadafi1797]

My manz Slick Rick got Gina and Martin headboard around his neck !! Lmao , icey , 😆

[@lawearsmith9851]

Peace and blessings

[@reggieturner5347]

Man I'm a REAL slick fan ... This d realest coolest cat alive

[@AnythingWithMotors]

Slick Rick The Ruler keep grinding fam

[@giggahigh]

Guys never forget he is also jamaican 🇯🇲

[@HunkyMonkey-ye4hz]

Woooooo i love ur vids

[@rachealsilburn901]

His style and swag define him. Period!

[@melvinwren]

iono how but it took me a second to see his piece on his chain

[@justinb954]

LOVE TO Slicky Ricky D. Aside from the gaudy jewelry hes always had the greatest style. (Even with his little, horribly timed detour in 1991) Hes for sure an x large GOAT! making one of the best albums of all times "where hes the only one rapping on his record" and early use of skits in his songs. Not a skit as a track but, he built his songs with his own skits. (Skits became super important for some reason) Rappers would say yeah the records done but the skits ain't ready. WTF? If you didnt buy "Da art of storytelling in 98 or 99" you are missing out. Its a small departure for him because of trends but, its a solid banger. We have the ruler & outkast remix that just destroyed the airwaves.

[@dls8139]

I LOVE ❤️ BEVY

[@fatimahightower9877]

🔥🔥🔥

[@MrBenigi]

This deserves more views

[@lawrencecampbell1412]

Brother Cool wid it!

[@jeremiahwoodsi7545]

Slick got the Maat Last ten commandments upon chest!

[@phillyd6120]

Uncle Ricky historic one of the baddest my opinion top five

[@tiktoks7102]

Tremendo collar que tiene

[@SheriffMayorTV]

Slick Rick!

[@natedogg5708]

Respect to large pro in the crowd

[@wilrobertson6770]

Slick Rick is the man Mr.Cool.

[@mrp4235]

Large Professor in the crowd.....

[@kricketbx]

Would've loved to have been there ;( How could they have this event without Me and Dale?? :(

[@terrysmith1100]

African soldier salute!!!

[@shanefraser7764]

Those damm Clark nurse shoes hahahah he onnnn ya know what I mean👑🤘👍🙌

[@johnnyharris3962]

THE RULER

[@dawud8538]

All the stars in the audience- The Ruler 🐐

[@khlyalda]

Clark's stay Crispy, Jewelry always Heavy! Ricky Bang'n on em!

[@Foodforthoght]

Goat

[@promysegrace]

I love how he speaks about our ancestors.

[@rickrolledtruth5834]

The Ruler *RICKY* ))))))

[@guesswhoscomingtoyoutube]

He even did a track Moses and its BANGING let that sink in

[@Rastaria_]

Gostei da corrente estilo tábua de corta carne hahahahah stylee

[@patrickmosley8634]

Big gang Firewood luv ok luv

[@Jet3ch]

Is that chain really real?!? Thats shit has to be worth over a million

[@maxfranklinmeans]

WOAH look at the size of that chain!

[@marcus.6487]

rick pimp'n tha sh!t out dat hat... ✌🏿™️

[@ryanharris284]

Freedom

[@justinwinn01]

He looks like the flyest pimp of the century

[@yawaisnatural4344]

Lmaooooooo not the pimp!!!!

[@yawaisnatural4344]

That’s the biggest 🏷 ever seen in my life!!🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@cesarbaca]

Oh shit! I saw you Large Pro! Hiding in the shadows 😂

[@Zbychu93]

The ruler's back! His fuckin chain tho 🤣