Rhyme Pays

Rhyme Pays is the debut album of Ice-T, released in 1987. The album, especially tracks like “6 ‘N the Mornin’,” earned him the label ‘godfather of gangster rap’.

It was the first album to carry a Parental Advisory warning label. Ice responded to this (and the PRMC, led by Tipper Gore, responsible for the labels) in his later songs “Freedom Of Speech” and Body Count’s “KKK Bitch”.

Rhyme Pays peaked at #93 in the US in November 1987.