NO CELL OUT! Slick Rick: Behind Bars (Def Jam/lsland 523 847-2/11 tks/40 mins/FP)
Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 25 March 1995
'The greatest living American poet bar none'? 'Hot-kniving the shit of God'? Oh, we know what you're thinking, children. Just another bleedin' baaad-boy banged up in the penitentiary for naughty rappers. But listen up just one more time, says NEIL KULKARNI, 'cos SLICK RICK is, in plenty more senses than one, the original
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