Slick Rick Net Worth (Updated 2024) – Bio Overview

Slick Rick Net Worth and Salary: Slick Rick is a well-known English-American rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor, who has a net worth of $3 million US as of 2024. He is regarded as one of rap music’s foremost and greatest storytellers. His effortless charisma and lyrical prowess distinguished him as one of the most important figures in a rap’s historical development.

Being popular as one of the original hip-hop stars, Slick has earned a lot of fame throughout his successful career. His music is always widely hit and has been sampled by high-profile artists such as Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, the Beastie Boys, Eminem, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, The Beastie Boys, The Notorious B.I.G., and Snoop Dogg. Moreover, he has entered the most-sampled hip-hop musicians in the history of the music genre.

In the mid-1980s, Slick gained fame after collaborating with rapper Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew. They released the songs “The Show” and “La Di Da Di” which were some of the earliest hip hop classics. His hit song titled “La Di Da Di” has been sampled more than practically any other track in music history. In this post, we are going to discuss the total net worth of Slick Rick his salary, income sources, career, biography, and a lot more.

Net Worth 2024:

Early Life:

Slick Rick was born on the 14th of Јаnuаrу 1965, to parents in Mitcham, London, England, United Kingdom. Slick is pretty much the personification of New York City hip-hop but was born in the UK. His born name is Richard Martin Lloyd Walters, popularly known as Slick Rick, Ricky D, The Ruler, or Ricky Walters.

His parents were American citizens from Jamaica who moved to work in the UK and they spent the first 11 years of their son’s life living in the more or less rap-free Suburbs of Mitcham in South London. When Slick was just 18 months old, a shared glass from a broken window found its way to his right eye and caused permanent damage.

After spending a decade in England, in 1976, Rick and his family relocated to the Unіtеd Ѕtаtеѕ оf Аmеrіса. Once Slick immigrated to the Bronx alongside his family, it didn’t take him long to discover his ability. He attended Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of Music & Art from where he graduated with a major in visual arts. While studying there he linked up with fellow future rapper Dаnа Dаnе and the two formed Тhе Каngоl Сrеw. They began performing in hip-hop battles all around the city as well as school events.

Personal Life:

Slick Rick got married to his school-time girlfriend Mandy Aragones in the year 1997. Four years before the marriage, they had met in the nightclub. Aside from that, Rick has two сhіldrеn named Маrtіn Llоуd Ѕаntіаgо аnd Lаtеіѕhа Wаltеrѕ from his previous relationship.

Career:

Once Slick finished high school, he began pursuing his dream soon enough, he’s fully realized rap persona would draw the attention of the human beatbox Doug E. Fresh. Doug E recruited Slick to feature on his 1985 single The Show, and Lа Dі Dа Dі, which later became a hit as well as become one of the most sampled hip hop tracks of all time. At that time he used the nickname МС Rісkу D. The songs grabbed the attention of many labels and Slick Rick became only the third artist ever to sign  Def Jam. 

In November of 1988, Slik Rick dropped his debut studio album The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, which became a commercial success by selling more than 1 million copies, and also become recognized as one of rap music’s all-time greatest albums. It included 3 charting singles like, Children’s Story, Hey Young World, and Teenage Love, and the album was certified platinum by RIIA.

Shortly after the release of his debut album, Slick Rick’s career almost went up in fame, now that he was earning a whole bunch of money and building a reputation. Rick’s mother who was then acting as his manager decided that he needed some protection so she bought him a bodyguard named Mark Plummer who was actually his cousin. Mark extorted his cousin for jewelry in a series of rental properties in New York, Slick Rick fired him.

Plummer then responded to the calm and rational way of threatening to kill Rick and his mother. Shortly thereafter, Rick returned home one day to discover bullet holes in his front door, then he decided that it was time to fight fire with fire. Rick set off his car to find Mark and inside his trunk were 6 fully loaded weapons, including two machine guns and a shotgun. When Slick finally found his cousin he fired a shot but missed.

On the 3rd of July 1990, Slick fired another shot, this one hit Mark in the foot. The police arrived only a minute later, as a result, he was arrested and immediately pled guilty to two counts of attempted murder and other charges including, assault, use of a firearm, and criminal possession of a gun. He tried to argue that he was simply defending himself but still wound up being sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.

On the other hand his cousin Mark was later shot and killed in retaliation for an unrelated crime. Before entering to serve his sentence, Slik Rick would record close to two dozen songs and released them as his second album, The Ruler’s Back, but the project failed to gain any real traction.

In 1994, he also dropped his third studio album from inside his prison cell titled Behind Bars. He recorded the majority of it while out on a work-release program but once again his music became a failure. After serving 5 years in 1997, he was released and immediately got to work on yet another album called The Art of Storytelling, released in 1999. The album became Slick Rick’s greatest achievement in music and featured guest spots from young rappers like Nas, Snoop Dogg, Redman, and Outkast. After reinvigorating his career with the art of storytelling, Slick Rick was once more on top of the world in the early 2000s.

But then while performing on a Florida cruise ship in 2002, immigration and nationalization service officials seized the rapper and carried him off to prison. After 17 months, Slick was finally released but the INS wasn’t through they tried again in both 2006 and 2008 to send Rick packing but thankfully it never worked. Eventually, New York Governor David Paterson gave Rick a full and unconditional Pardon on the attempted murder charges. Ever since then, INS has left Rick alone. Apart from that, he’s been sampled by Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Future, and more.

Honors and Awards:

In the year 2008, Rick has bee a VH-1 Hip Hop Honors honoree, and in 2015 he was delivered with a Mixx Cares Humanitarian Award for his “his assistance to music and public service. He found himself ranking number 11 on About.com’s list of The 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time, and number 15 on the list of The Source” magazine’s Top 50 Lyricists of All Time. The rapper also received a nomination for the Grammy award for Montell Jordan’s single This Is How We Do It, which samples the track Children’s Story.