A balance is a bid which must be made to prevent the opponents from taking the contract. For example, after the sequence: 1â  - Pass - 2â  - Pass-Pass) ? this last person has a choice between passing (and hence letting the opponents play 2â ) and bidding (called balancing in this situation).
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. Slick Rick went to jail because he shot a bystander and hired his cousin as a bodyguard and then shot another person by the name of Walter. 9 people found this useful.
Richard Martin Lloyd Walters (born 14 January 1965), better known by his stage name Slick Rick, is a Grammy-nominated English-born rapper. He has also been known as Rick the Ruler, MC Ricky D, and Ricky Dee.He began his career in late 1983, in the hip hop genre, where he recorded a series of acclaimed recordings such as  La Di Da Di  and  Children's Story .a Di Da Di featured Walters' rapping over Doug E. Fresh's beatbox. Both tracks gained some mainstream attention, they appeared on Top of the Pops and Soul Train with Fresh's Get Fresh Crew. In 1988 Walters' solo debut The Great Adventures of Slick Rick came out on Def Jam Records.