When Ice T Ruled The World

Aw and a triumphant return of this the way less popular blog in allergy haze form.(Which should enhance The Incredibly Real World Of Rachel Mills, from ze book even though that's not what it's called I think.) I say that only because the old school Rebelde/OC/new records/Lost recap blog was way more popular. Perhaps I'll have to recap some new program. So in honor of the old blog. It's time for the Samaire Armstrong dramedy and holy crap one of the RBD members is gay.(big surprise. He was about as inconspicuous as Mr. Humphries from Are You Being Served? was.) I'll apologize for laziness, simply because Ice-T speaks for him self taking sex crime bastards off the streets on TV every week.

When Ice-T Ruled The World



Who he was/is/will always be: First off his real name is Tracy. You have to be hard to write gangsta raps when your name is Tracy. 2nd He had some brilliant intagiables. Breakdancing,(as seen in Breakin I believe) check. Dealing, hustling, pimping, check. Nickname ripped from classic street litereature check.
Early in his career Ice busted rhymes Kurtis Blow style about parties and rockin the mic, but somewhere around 87 or 88 he remembered L.A. is totally shit right now. Reagan unleashed crack on the hood, Gangs killed each other every day, The poor were getting poorer. So he broke out harder raps like Colors and High Roller and stardom happened. There was NWA, Ice-T, and Too Short, everybody else was some bullshit when it came to the first wave of Gangsta rap and finally the West Coast was a power in hip hop.(and the era of the Egyptian Lover style of electro rap was over sadly as well.) But, the one thing that seperated Ice-T, was positivity. Sure 10 outta 12 tracks may have been about killing people, but then you'd get some track like Mind Over Matter which is all about education.

The High Point: The Iceberg and O.G Original Gangster. The Iceberg was a brilliant diatribe on street life and freedom of speech set to sweet James Brown samples(like the Boss) and those harsh violent drumming/funky/horn driven beats that Evil E and DJ Aladdin always created for his records. O.G is like war on vinyl, with the same formula of beats aforementioned, full of brilliant tracks ranging from the theme from New Jack City(New Jack Hustler), Straight Up Nigga(About Black Pride/calling himself what he wants to), Mic Contract(Killing people) and of course a three and half minute song of shoutouts to other rappers who kick ass.

So what happened?: well in a feat a genius gone wrong, Ice-T was one of the first guys(yes public enemy was up there) to mix live rock and roll with his band Body Count. Of course they are most famous for Cop Killer and KKK Bitch. While songs like this made him more famous/controversial the albums really weren't that great and people ultimately stopped caring.(sadly this also influenced Limp Bizkit and Vanilla Ice's rap rock comeback.) He had maybe two more albums(VI and Analog Bros. with Kool Keith) that were somewhat well recieved. However, Ice-T the rapper may be worthless now, however Ice-T the actor kicks ass every week on Law and Order SVU.

Availability: Easy. You can still get Ice-T records. On the cheap even.

Vids:
Colors



New Jack Hustler