Ice-T Settles It: Discover Out His Choose For Best Hip-Hop Album Of All-Time

Ice-T has been within the rap sport lengthy sufficient to know a factor or two about hip-hop legends. So when he hit The Tonight Present sofa on Thursday night time (April 21) and host Jimmy Fallon requested him to positively state his choose for the best rap album of all time, Sgt. Fin Tutuola didn’t hesitate to place the talk to relaxation.

As a part of the “Ice-T Settles It” phase — by which the Legislation & Order: SVU star weighed in on whether or not it’s higher to dam or mute somebody on Twitter (mute, for certain) and whether or not gradual walkers or gradual talkers are extra annoying (it’s talkers, hurry up, as a result of gamers stroll gradual, you realize) — Mr. Marrow didn’t hesitate when it got here to choosing his high hip-hop LP.

“I say Paid in Full by Eric B. & Rakim,” stated Ice of the 1987 debut from the untouchable duo, which featured such iconic hits as “Eric B. Is President,” “I Ain’t No Joke,” “I Know You Obtained Soul” in addition to the title monitor. “As a result of that was probably the most influential album to me once I was making my album,” he stated of the classes for his 1987 debut, the West Coast gangsta rap traditional, Rhyme Pays. An in depth second, in line with the Iceman, is Public Enemy’s 1990 brain-smasher Concern of a Black Planet, adopted by N.W.A.’s untouchable 1988 debut, Straight Outta Compton.

“Every a type of albums had loads to do with influencing me as an MC,” stated T, who has been within the sport for 4 many years. “However once I heard Rakim I had by no means heard no one rap like that. And it was so many hits on that album. Get Paid in Full and also you’ll bang all of it the way in which to the home.”

The rap legend additionally talked about how he ended up on the again (however not the entrance, smh) of a Cheerios cereal field and the fuel station theft joke about excessive gas costs that turned his greatest tweet of all time.

Watch Ice-T on The Tonight Present beneath.