CWT468🎙️: Ice-T's 'Rhyme Pays' — The Birth of West Coast Gangsta Rap

from Critical Wade Theory · host Wade Wainio

Today, we’re rewinding to 1987 — the year a West Coast rapper named Ice-T dropped Rhyme Pays and shook up the entire landscape of hip-hop. Not just an album, but a warning shot. This was gangsta rap before the genre even had a name.

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