Slick Rick’s Victory Will Screen At HollyShorts Film Festival

Slick Rick’s visual album Victory will screen at the HollyShorts Film Festival at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, August 7, 2025. The film is the companion to the audio album that has a scenario for each song. Slick Rick recorded the album with inspiration from his life of ups and downs as a Golden Era hip-hop icon and his love for hip-hop. Idris Elba partnered with Rick to release the project on his 7Wallace label with the Mass Appeal imprint and he is the executive producer. Victory had its first screening on Christmas Day in 2024 at Rikers Island and was hosted by Rick and his wife and business partner Mandy Aragones through their Victory Patch Foundation. Meji Alabi, who directed Beyoncé’s Black is King, also directed Victory, and Rick summed it up: “VICTORY is named with purpose. This is more than a body of work — it’s where sound meets vision, where resilience meets rhythm. A global love letter to hip-hop, to creativity, and to the overlooked, told through the lens of imagination and truth.” Victory will start at 8 PM and tickets are still available.