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.
It charted higher than any of Slick Rick's prior releases: #8 on the Billboard 200; #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. After performing on a Caribbean cruise ship in June 2001, Walters was arrested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as he re-entered the United States through Florida.