The Great Adventures of Slick Rick

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Mojo	[4]
NME	7/10[5]
Q	[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]
Select	4/5[9]
The Source	[10]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	9/10[11]
The Village Voice	C+[12]

The Philadelphia Inquirer called "Let's Get Crazy" "one of the year's most jolting, exciting pieces of music."^[13] The Orange County Register concluded that "Rick's goofy rap style makes him seem less a braggart than a beleaguered Everyman and, with its wickedly sharp production, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick sounds great."^[14]

In 1998, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick was selected as one of The Source's "100 Best Albums".^[15] The album was retrospectively awarded a perfect "five-mic" score by the magazine in 2002.^[10] In 2012, it was ranked at number 99 on Slant Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s".^[16] In VH1's 2008 ranking of the "100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs", the single "Children's Story" placed at number 61.^[17]

Hip hop artist Nas cites The Great Adventures of Slick Rick as one of his favorite albums.^[18] In 2009, fellow rapper Busta Rhymes said of the album:

No artist before or since has painted pictures as vividly as Slick Rick did on that album. He embodied what it was to be a superstar: the over-the-top persona, the jewellery, the clothes, his swagger, charisma, attitude. He had that London twang and the mannerisms, but still had the 'hood mentality – the urban, edgy approach. Nobody else had that combination.^[19]

• Glen E. Friedman—photography
• Jason Mizell (as Jam Master Jay)—producer
• Jerry Martin—producer
• Eric "Vietnam" Sadler—producer
• Hank Shocklee—producer
• Slick Rick—vocals
• Ricky Walters—producer
• Rick Rubin—executive producer

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1989 (U.S.)