Rhyme Pays

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Rhyme Pays is a hardcore hip hop album by West Coast rapper Ice-T, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). Ice-T was perhaps the first West Coast hip hop star (the field then being dominated by electro hop). This album, especially tracks like "6 'N the Mornin'," is considered the beginning of gangsta rap. Rhyme Pays was the beginning of the popularization of the West Coast scene, later continued by N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton and Dr. Dre's The Chronic. Rolling Stone magazine gave the album three stars.

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Rhyme Pays peaked at #26 and #93 on Billboard's (North America) Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums and the Billboard 200 albums charts, respectively.

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Hardcore hip hop: Hardcore hip hop is a form of hip hop music that has confrontational, often violent lyrics, and generally sparse, gritty urban beats. The genre began in the mid- to late 1980s with artists like Boogie Down Productions on the East Coast and Ice-T on the West. Soon after, hardcore hip hop evolved in...

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Ice-T: Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958 in Newark, New Jersey), better known as Ice-T or Ice T, is an American rapper, singer, actor, and former pimp. Ice has had a very diverse career as a musician - from being widely believed to have created west-coast Gangster rap to pioneering Hybrid metal rap....

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