Ice T’s “Tower” is as real as it gets. He gives the listener a lyrical vision of prison life. The snippets at the end of the track made this joint official.
funny u say that... as my 1st time goin in... on the way there i sang this song to myself.... thanks ice... made me right to myself before i rolled in tha joint... haha 1993 5yrs......... ice always was like a bible since he made gangster rap....! song power was my goto tape.. not cd... before to robbed drug dealers... hahaha
I was in the Army stationed in Germany. I was a truck driver. This CD was one of my favorites. Ice T broke barriers and spoke truths a lot of people didn't want to hear.
1:40 -- "This is my second day, I got a 10 Year stay. I learned my first lesson = in the Pen you don't play!"... Great Story telling!!!! Those lines are COLD!!!!! Imagine saying ""This is my second day, I got a 10 Year stay."!! Chilling!! Ice-T, the Godfather of Ganster Rap!!!!!!!!!!!
@seppetoni7874 I think he's referring to his time and he isnt there anymore.
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Yup! I was one of the White Boys, ran with the Woods Gang (Peckerwoods 14/88). It's all theater, nobody really hates anybody, but you're suppose to pretend to. I have tattoos that label me a racist for life.
I remember the days when this would play on The Box/Video JukeBox & NYC's Video Music Box. I agree The Grimey Side of HipHop. Someone on here said this is the birth of Horrorcore HipHop & I still love it & still BUMP it. Now I'm a Kool As Fuck Grandma.
i sang this shit word ON word going to prizzzzzzz ummmm on a bus pullin up tooooo... 5 years later from song release.... love my ice.... u get cold wen its time lolololol hahaaaaaaaaaha
Ice T is the only artist to write to the movie Halloween orchestra epic sound. This guy is a true Is giant in the Old School era of Hip-hop hands down . He definitely is the true story tella of gangster rap. 6 in the morning, Colors, and Squeeze the Trigger 😮 classics not to mention New Jack Hustler Nino brown's theme .
Been ICE -T fan ever sinse my Older brother introduced me to ICE-T Music. I'm still a Fan of your Music ICE-T. I appreciate What you have done in your rock band Body Count. This man got criticized for doing Rock . What I love about ICE-T. He never cared about the Haters. The man madeMusic. Yall can keep listening to this new age mumble rap all u want. In my opinion The hardest album ICE-T ever came out with was *Home invasion*
Ice-T is the thinking man's gangsta rapper. He talks about power, money and fame but he never glorifies it. It is what it is. He tells the facts and his storytelling has you gripped from beginning to end. I loved Coolio back in the day too (RIP). How many rappers talked about growing up starving and having to steal to eat? And "Gangsta's Paradise" will always be a banger.
1991 I was locked 🔒 up in Orleans Parish Prison in Nawlins aka New Orleans Louisiana when I was 21yrs old in 1991 and I remember this Ice 🧊 T classic song 🎵 🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹
Met him at a festival in the UK was doing a rap set that night and playing with BodyCount the next day. I just walked past three big bodyguards and shook his hand. He was totally chilled.
This and Color Blind by Ice Cube/Da Lench Mob are 2 of the hardest hip hop tracks ever!! Thirty years later and still chilling, tough and strong lyrically and musically. If there are any other tracks that are more stone cold or better than those 2 then I haven't heard them!! Any candidates?
@@sirjer73 Thanks for your reply. Wow! I haven't heard 'The Hunted Child' for absolutely ages or The Iceberg album. That was released in 1989 (over 30 years ago!!!). I need to refresh my memory regarding that album. The Hunted Child is good but in my opinion I think The Tower just feels that bit tougher, harder, colder and more edgy. The sample and the added stories about the penitentiary just lift it to the next level. Homicide by CPO is ok but it doesn't have the punch of The Tower. It feels like it's more about how 'tough' CPO is (which you'd expect as that is part of the rap game!!) rather than telling a story or describing a situation. But, who's to say I'm right? This is just my opinion and I'm grateful for your recommendations. Any other candidates?
@@christysonkohousegarage24 I can dig your response. That Hunted Child with its Public Enemy Bomb Squad type of kettle whistle production, adds to the desperation of the subject matter. In the song. And Lil Nation verbal performance along with DJ Train's production and the Clint Eastwood samples, are unmatched!!!
Ice T is in my top 10 rappers ever. Yeah there are dozens of more lyrically talented MCs with better flows, but he's a top 5 storyteller with a top 5 voice and image. Plus a top 5 most trendsetting and influential. And one of the first crossover artists too. Paved the way for guys like LL Cool J and Ice Cube to act.
![Ice-T - I'm Your Pusher (Official Video) [Explicit]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2h5JO2sJ3kw/mqdefault.jpg)
I was a teenager when this came out....nothing better than blasting this cassette tape on my friends Alpine in his cavalier convertible Z24
This and Midnight
Same
Que inveja
Ice-T is such a great storyteller, no contest.
NAS
been saying this for years, dunno why Slick Rick has the title of best storyteller. Tracy Lauren Marrow for the win
Ice Cube + Ice T great story tellers
Raul Abarca that dude on sum otha level shit love him
There are quite a few great storytellers in Hiphop eye appreciate them all...
Ice T’s “Tower” is as real as it gets. He gives the listener a lyrical vision of prison life. The snippets at the end of the track made this joint official.
When I heard it this made me never want to go jail They youth better learn the meaning of this song
funny u say that... as my 1st time goin in... on the way there i sang this song to myself.... thanks ice... made me right to myself before i rolled in tha joint... haha 1993 5yrs......... ice always was like a bible since he made gangster rap....! song power was my goto tape.. not cd... before to robbed drug dealers... hahaha
@@jimmyconway7554 A "Stick-Up Guy" ;)
@@qualityserviceexperts9996 lololol nice....
Suga Free "Jailin" is on point too!!!!
I was in the Army stationed in Germany. I was a truck driver. This CD was one of my favorites. Ice T broke barriers and spoke truths a lot of people didn't want to hear.
Ooh a CD that's living large,I wore out the cassette😂
Ice T was in the military as well.
The O.G. album is like an hour + non stop movie. One of my all time favs.
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Best Ice album... now BC is pretty real also
Best gangster rapper Storyteller of all time
Absolutely!
1:40 -- "This is my second day, I got a 10 Year stay. I learned my first lesson = in the Pen you don't play!"...
Great Story telling!!!! Those lines are COLD!!!!! Imagine saying ""This is my second day, I got a 10 Year stay."!! Chilling!!
Ice-T, the Godfather of Ganster Rap!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best tracks ever made by anyone!
Agree bro .
Still here in 2024🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Right here,baby!!! This is so called music today, sucks!
Right Here, ALWAYS ❤
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Me too..
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I grew up in this era and I can tell you this stuff is way different than it is now these guys were living it before the internet
I love hip hop man this musta being crazy to hear this back then
Jupp
Man, I love Ice-T. He did Everything before Anybody else. .. and the warning shot was a hit.
I agree my bro 👍
His lyrics painted a picture of what it was like to be in the pen.
was?
@seppetoni7874 I think he's referring to his time and he isnt there anymore.
Yup! I was one of the White Boys, ran with the Woods Gang (Peckerwoods 14/88). It's all theater, nobody really hates anybody, but you're suppose to pretend to. I have tattoos that label me a racist for life.
That Halloween sample was on point
Right like they perfectly Incorporated the synthesizer from the original track
As well as the James Brown sample
OG Ice T was the poster child for ''Westcoast'' Hip Hop In the Mid to late 80's And early 90s.🎶🔥🔥🔥😎
its my second day, i got a ten year stay....that line always gets me. his vocals are so powerful
Wow a fellow 3abn and Perry Stone viewer....
@@blacckz yes! Love both. Professor Walter Veith is my favorite
Lillie? U dig this
@@provethioaltum3276 absolutely
His vocals, either his rap stuff or Body Count, are always so audible and clear. He’s awesome!
When hip hop was hip hop
I remember the days when this would play on The Box/Video JukeBox & NYC's Video Music Box.
I agree The Grimey Side of HipHop. Someone on here said this is the birth of Horrorcore HipHop & I still love it & still BUMP it.
Now I'm a Kool As Fuck Grandma.
Today rap music is goofy
A lot of good hip hop now just gotta dig for it
@@donkeykong5414 dig deep
I like how dark this song sounds & I even liked how deep Ice T's voice was.
Dark time!
I dig the Halloween beat.
@@boyreasoningofficialbeats 👍
Gangster rap.
@@courylanders4142 Listen to Halloween Theme,This is where ice T got the beat in this ,yes it is Gangster Rap
i sang this shit word ON word going to prizzzzzzz ummmm on a bus pullin up tooooo... 5 years later from song release.... love my ice.... u get cold wen its time lolololol hahaaaaaaaaaha
It's Awesome
Man, prison is NO PLACE for a human being, Salaam
Man ice-t was a real storyteller
Ice t the don original OG from the west coast,classic tune...followed him way back from the breakin days reckless,Tibetan jam etc GOAT👊
Ice T tells a story in rap form and it is sooo strong you just feel and watch it in youre mind like a movie
*your*
O g his best album
Ice t is always the legendary West coast rapper
Ice T is the only artist to write to the movie Halloween orchestra epic sound. This guy is a true Is giant in the Old School era of Hip-hop hands down . He definitely is the true story tella of gangster rap. 6 in the morning, Colors, and Squeeze the Trigger 😮 classics not to mention New Jack Hustler Nino brown's theme .
A True Street poet
What more can I say Ice T true OG in this rap game
Truth Truth Truth is all this song about.
Ice-T You are a Legend!!!
Been ICE -T fan ever sinse my Older brother introduced me to ICE-T Music.
I'm still a Fan of your Music ICE-T.
I appreciate What you have done in your rock band Body Count.
This man got criticized for doing Rock .
What I love about ICE-T. He never cared about the Haters. The man madeMusic.
Yall can keep listening to this new age mumble rap all u want.
In my opinion
The hardest album ICE-T ever came out with was
*Home invasion*
Ice-T is the thinking man's gangsta rapper. He talks about power, money and fame but he never glorifies it. It is what it is. He tells the facts and his storytelling has you gripped from beginning to end.
I loved Coolio back in the day too (RIP). How many rappers talked about growing up starving and having to steal to eat? And "Gangsta's Paradise" will always be a banger.
This song is hard asf
Who ever gave this a thumbs down don't know what good music is
I HEAR 👂 U‼️ IGNORANT AS F**K‼️
STAY BLESSED ALWAYS‼️
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️
It was soldier boy
a lot of halloween samples out there but this is the best one
Ice-T Lyrical On Point with this Song The Tower
1:43 the coldest verse you could play this glass generation
Ice t he’s a story teller.
Absolute classic.
I say OLD BUT very gold
EVERGREEN ! :-) 30 years later still goose bumps !
He is,and will always be the best! A fucking genius if you ask me!
Under rated track!!
The great Ice T sampling the great John Carpenter
1991 I was locked 🔒 up in Orleans Parish Prison in Nawlins aka New Orleans Louisiana when I was 21yrs old in 1991 and I remember this Ice 🧊 T classic song 🎵 🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹
I was wondering was it what made you feel free to contact talk about this soon
One of the best to ever do it! ICE T
Takes me back , way back in the dayz!!!
This beat so fuckin 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 ICE T WAS A DOPE RAPPER 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 STILL BANGING IN 2023
Classic forever. Can't forget this at Foufounes Electriques, Montreal, 1992. Ice-T, thank you.
Ice-T the best!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗
We should get more Vintage Hip-Hop videos and less People’s Party clips. Who else agrees?
Definitely I used to own this whole album on Vhs . I constantly watched it .
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Timeless. 🙌🏽
Good
Hardcore as it's beet 🔥🔥🔥
We still rockN in 2024👀? 🙋🏾💪🏿..
Who rockN wit the pushR …?
Best Halloween remix ever.
bumped this Song nonstop,togheter with Colors my absolute favourite Rap Songs.
Ice t a true rap legend
Damn i never knew they had a video for this!!
This was such a dope album
This is epic and timeless, sadly, though, how it's still like this
Original fan loooove forever💋❤Hasn't lost his genius lyrical skills either.
Met him at a festival in the UK was doing a rap set that night and playing with BodyCount the next day. I just walked past three big bodyguards and shook his hand. He was totally chilled.
Classic..
Thats right
One of the authentic gangster rhyme ever. Salute OG Ice-T.
OLD BUT GOLD 🥇
I'm rollin' up in a big gray bus
And I'm shackled down
Myself that's who I trust
The minute I arrived
Some sucker got hit
Shanked ten times
Behind some bullshit
Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
So without hesitatin'
I made a weapon quick
If found a sharp piece of metal
Taped it to a stick
Then a bullhorn sounds
That means it's time for chow
My first prison meal
The whole feeling was foul
It wasn't quite my style
But my stomach growled
So I flushed the shit down
And hit the weight pile
The brothers was swole
The attitudes was cold
Felt the tension on the yard
From the young and the old
But I'm a warrior
I got my ground to hold
So I studied the inmates
To see who hd the power
the Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower!
In a blink of an eye, a riot broke out
Blacks put their backs to the wall
Cause it was north and south
A gun man shouts
And everybody had doubt
Until the bullets started fly'n
Took two men out
Thn they rushed everybody
Back to their cells
Damn the pen is different than
The county jail
I'm in a one man cell
I know my life's on a scale
I wonder if that gunman is goin' to hell
This is my second day
I got a ten year stay
I learned my first lesson
In the pen you don't plaay
I saw a brother kill another
Cause he said he was gay
But that's the way it is
It been that way for years
and when his body hit the ground
I heard a couple of cheers
It kind of hurt me inside
That they were glad he died
and I ask myself
Just who had the power?
The Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower!
You see the Whites got a thing
The call White pride
The Blacks got the muscle
Mexicans got the knives
You better be wise
You want to stay alive
Go toe to toe with a sucka
No matter wht size
A fool tried to sweat me
Act'n like he was hard
I stuck him twice in the neck
And left him dead in the yard
It was smooth how I did it
Cause nobody could see
With my jacket on my arm
And my knife on the side of me
Bam bam, it was over
Another one bites the dust
I went crazy in the pen
With nobody to trust
Bench'n ten quarters, so I'm hard to sweat
Used a tat gun, and engrved my set
They call me a lifer
Cause I'm good as dead
I live in the hole, so the floor's my bed
And I ask myself again
Who has the power
The Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Rashir Bilal / Tracy Lauren Marrow
The Tower lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Good ol days,,Thank you icetea for sharing your vision in them times...life is so crazy,,be cool yall and let the positivity.
Reign
And the warning shot was a hit
this is rap 100 %💣🔥👊🔝🎙🎤🙏✌
On with the Body Count !!!
Who still here listening 2024?????? I like how he sampled Friday the 13th 🍿
Breaking, Rapping , Acting , Metal artist . - Not too many can wear that many Colors . Ice -T
Such a strong piece of music. John carpenter vibes. They need to make a movie of this together
Yeah! With song as intro music
This song made many not want to go to prison.
Never heard this track till now..Respect Ice... Listen, just listen ✊🏾
OG The Original Gangsta
Hard and gritty and true. I miss the days of rap telling stories. Not this CRAP
rap today.
The realest shit ever✊🏽
Ice cold facts this snog is real talk shame music will never sound this way agin
How could this get thumbs down? This shit hella gangsta!
ANOTHER RAPPIN LEGEND, WHO WAS & STILL IS REAL NICE WIT THE MOUT PIECE.
Such a (skyrocketing) song once again from Mr Kool! 😊
This and Color Blind by Ice Cube/Da Lench Mob are 2 of the hardest hip hop tracks ever!!
Thirty years later and still chilling, tough and strong lyrically and musically.
If there are any other tracks that are more stone cold or better than those 2 then I haven't heard them!!
Any candidates?
I agree ill also suggest Homicide by CPO . And Ice T the hunted child!!!
@@sirjer73 Thanks for your reply. Wow! I haven't heard 'The Hunted Child' for absolutely ages or The Iceberg album. That was released in 1989 (over 30 years ago!!!). I need to refresh my memory regarding that album. The Hunted Child is good but in my opinion I think The Tower just feels that bit tougher, harder, colder and more edgy. The sample and the added stories about the penitentiary just lift it to the next level.
Homicide by CPO is ok but it doesn't have the punch of The Tower. It feels like it's more about how 'tough' CPO is (which you'd expect as that is part of the rap game!!) rather than telling a story or describing a situation. But, who's to say I'm right? This is just my opinion and I'm grateful for your recommendations. Any other candidates?
@@sirjer73 wow thats the first time I heard someone reference that song. I always dug that track.
@@christysonkohousegarage24 I can dig your response. That Hunted Child with its Public Enemy Bomb Squad type of kettle whistle production, adds to the desperation of the subject matter. In the song. And Lil Nation verbal performance along with DJ Train's production and the Clint Eastwood samples, are unmatched!!!
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Ice t one of the best rappers in the world
This shit makes me wanna sharpen my toothbrush 🔥
😆😆😆😟😟😟😟😟
:D :D :D
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH
Scrape Honda floor back and forth
I was around 8 or 9 and I played this album out! That and N.W.A., Kriss Kross, Bobby Brown and the Chronic!
I was 14 when this was released. Right there and then I knew what I wanted to be.
Now, I'm a yard sniper!
90s hip hop still the shit
STILL MAD ILL!!!!!!!!!
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(2024 TO INFINITY)
Ice-T is currently the worlds oldest hip hop rapper
Hes not a rapper hes an MC
Schoolly D is
@@binghamptonbound114Ice-T is older than Schoolly D, but he is always keen to acknowledge that Schoolly D did the first gangsta rap.
@@EdwardAveyard That’s what i mean the first gangster rapper and oldest gangster rapper
OG ICE-T#1
This is real gangster shit
The great 90's....
I wish I was in the nineeteees
@@rebeccapoci6791 me too ;-)
Ice T real hard core gangsta rap mc 😎💣💣
O.G
Ice T is in my top 10 rappers ever. Yeah there are dozens of more lyrically talented MCs with better flows, but he's a top 5 storyteller with a top 5 voice and image. Plus a top 5 most trendsetting and influential. And one of the first crossover artists too. Paved the way for guys like LL Cool J and Ice Cube to act.
Scariest song ever written. Real shit though. Had a dad that was in the gang life. This is as real as it gets.
Great sample of the Halloween theme 🔥
Beautifully written rhyme, Dark Rhythm & Poetry.
🐐 🐐🐐🐐
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That eerie as fck Halloween sample...
Amazing track, i still wear my Cap this way, which is based on Military Mechanics.
The shit hard