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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 13: Slick Rick attends the “Victory” Premiere during the 2025 Tribeca … More Festival at SVA Theater on June 13, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival) Getty Images for Tribeca Festival Respectively a hip-hop pioneer, particularly in the lane of rap storytelling, an act that slates the British-Jamaican born and Bronx buttered emcee a poet, Slick Rick continues to set blueprints with the release his first album in 26 years, ‘Victory,’ a cinematic visual work that is the first of its kind. On Friday (June 13), once known as MC Ricky D, Slick Rick dropped his first album since 1999’s The Art of Storytelling, Victory. The work encompasses many firsts. It is not only the first album the legendary emcee has released in 26 years, but the first project he drops as an artist of Idris Elba’s 7 Wallace UK-based record label. And this is not the average album. It is a collaborative effort between 7 Wallace and Nas’ Mass Appeal, to whom he is also signed, as part of the record label/creative agency’s “Legend Has It” project. Victory is beyond a typical one. The work is beyond tunes and also presents as a cinematic visual album, which premiered in the United States at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday. And if one truly thinks about it, Slick Rick is one of, if not the first, rapper from the Golden Era to produce a work of this caliber. Both Elba and Nas stand as executive producers, with seasoned British-Nigerian director Meji Alabi aiding with execution. Q-Tip also makes production contributions to the track “Another Great Adventure,” and Young Guru, a mastermind behind several post-Y2K classics, is stationed among the audio engineers on the album. Alabi, who is…

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