CWT468🎙️: Ice-T's 'Rhyme Pays' — The Birth of West Coast Gangsta Rap
- Author
- Wade Wainio
- Published
- Wed 18 Jun 2025
- Episode Link
- https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wade-wainio/episodes/CWT468-Ice-Ts-Rhyme-Pays--The-Birth-of-West-Coast-Gangsta-Rap-e34eef6
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.
