Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster

One of gangsta rap's defining albums, O.g. Original Gangster is a sprawling masterpiece that stands far and away as Ice-t's finest hour. Taken track by track, O.g. might not seem at first like the product of a unified vision; perspective-wise, it's all over the map. There's perceptive social analysis, chilling violence, psychological storytelling, hair-trigger rage, pleas for solutions to ghetto misery, cautionary morality tales, and cheerfully crude humor in the depictions of sex and defenses of street language. Read More