![]() ![]() He found a manager in Jerry Heller, a washed-up and middle-aged rock promoter who'd started working with local rappers. Local swap meets and mom-and-pops would sell them. The local radio station KDAY would play them. The local pressing plant Macola would turn local rappers' tapes into records. Wright, a mid-level weed dealer, put his street money into putting together a rap label. By 1987, Ice was talking that street shit on his first major-label album Rhyme Pays.īut when "6 In The Mornin'" hit, things changed. In 1986, Ice recorded "6 In The Mornin'," his own take on what Schoolly had done with "P.S.K." (Ice used Schoolly's cadence, and he played Schoolly the song over the phone before releasing it, just so that Schoolly would know that Ice was paying homage.) "6 In The Mornin'" is a wild, vivid story-song about street life, about walking through the world as a self-made monster: "Got a knot in my pocket, weighing at least a grand/ Gold on my neck, my pistols close at hand." Ice released "6 In The Mornin'" as the B-side to his single "Dog 'N The Wax (Ya Don't Quit - Part II)," but he quickly realized that people liked the B-side better. He realized he could use rap music to tell his own stories. But when he heard Schoolly D, Ice knew the rules had changed. As hip-hop made its way from New York to the rest of the country, Ice found roles imitating that New York sound in early rapsploitation movies: Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, Rappin'. ![]() Before discovering rap, Ice had lived a checkered life, making money as a pimp and a criminal, then serving in the Army. What Does It Mean?" became an underground favorite, and one of its admirers was Ice-T, a rapper who'd been born in New Jersey but had been based in South Central Los Angeles, on and off, since high school. ![]()
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