The Great Adventures of Slick Rick is the debut studio album by hip hop recording artist Slick Rick, released on November 1, 1988.

It topped Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for five nonconsecutive weeks and peaked at number 31 on the Billboard 200.

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Mojo	[3]
NME	7/10[4]
Q	[5]
Rolling Stone	[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[7]
Select	4/5[8]
The Source	5/5[9]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	9/10[10]
The Village Voice	C+[11]

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In 1998, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick was selected as one of The Source's "100 Best Albums".^[12] The album was retrospectively awarded a perfect "five-mic" score by the magazine in 2002.^[9] In 2012, it was ranked at number 99 on Slant Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s".^[13] In VH1's 2008 ranking of the "100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs", the single "Children's Story" placed at number 61.^[14]

Hip hop artist Nas cites The Great Adventures of Slick Rick as one of his favorite albums.^[15] 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.^[16]

• 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.)