Just-Ice (b. Joseph Williams) a former bouncer at punk clubs, was the first… Read Full Bio ↴Just-Ice (b. Joseph Williams) a former bouncer at punk clubs, was the first of the New York MCs to embrace gangsta rap (although he hardly ever used foul language), and when he burst out of Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, as Just-Ice, he gained instant notoriety. Muscle-bound, tattooed, aggressive—he resembled Mike Tyson in more than just looks—and with a mouthful of gold teeth, he certainly stood out. His debut album Back to the Old School proved he was more than just a pretty face. It came out on the independent New York label Fresh/Sleeping Bag label in 1986, and sounded like no other hip-hop album, thanks to his fast, forceful rhymes, Cool DMX's human beatbox, and the distinctive production of Mantronix's Kurtis Mantronik. Ice was also one of the first MCs to embrace the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths on a recording, as well as being a pioneer in incorporating dancehall reggae-style toasting into hip-hop rhymes.
When he was held by Washington, D.C., police regarding the murder of a drug dealer in 1987 ("Murder, Drugs, and the Rap Star" read a Washington Post headline), it gave him an even greater notoriety (he was never charged with the murder). Declaring war on D.C.'s go-go scene and loudly criticizing Run-D.M.C. (then the ruling New York hip-hop outfit), Just-Ice set a pattern for many a future hip-hop feud. Little could halt Just-Ice's ascension to hip hop stardom, though the departure of Mantronik from Sleeping Bag was a bad omen. KRS-One stepped in to produce 1987's Kool & Deadly, an album that swapped Mantronik's hi-tech skills for raw, elemental beats and rhymes. The British and New York public that had so enthusiastically embraced Back to the Old School were indifferent about this one, and 1989's The Desolate One (with KRS-One back in the producer's seat) was no great improvement. By 1990, both Just-Ice and Sleeping Bag appeared to be quickly fading as a new generation of MCs and labels overtook them. He continued to release albums at intervals across the 1990s, but they were on tiny independent labels, although one, 1993's Gun Talk, had major-label distribution and had five of the album's 10 cuts produced by Kurtis Mantronik; and were rarely noticed. Just-Ice was a member of hip-hop super session, the Stop the Violence Movement, which released one single ("Self Destruction") in 1990.
When he was held by Washington, D.C., police regarding the murder of a drug dealer in 1987 ("Murder, Drugs, and the Rap Star" read a Washington Post headline), it gave him an even greater notoriety (he was never charged with the murder). Declaring war on D.C.'s go-go scene and loudly criticizing Run-D.M.C. (then the ruling New York hip-hop outfit), Just-Ice set a pattern for many a future hip-hop feud. Little could halt Just-Ice's ascension to hip hop stardom, though the departure of Mantronik from Sleeping Bag was a bad omen. KRS-One stepped in to produce 1987's Kool & Deadly, an album that swapped Mantronik's hi-tech skills for raw, elemental beats and rhymes. The British and New York public that had so enthusiastically embraced Back to the Old School were indifferent about this one, and 1989's The Desolate One (with KRS-One back in the producer's seat) was no great improvement. By 1990, both Just-Ice and Sleeping Bag appeared to be quickly fading as a new generation of MCs and labels overtook them. He continued to release albums at intervals across the 1990s, but they were on tiny independent labels, although one, 1993's Gun Talk, had major-label distribution and had five of the album's 10 cuts produced by Kurtis Mantronik; and were rarely noticed. Just-Ice was a member of hip-hop super session, the Stop the Violence Movement, which released one single ("Self Destruction") in 1990.
The Immortal
Just-Ice Lyrics
Everybody wanna kill babies
But nobody wanna kill the evil
Everybody actin so crazy
Just believe that we still
Have all the rigteousness inside of us
Oh you're a puss you got a gun
But too scared to use it on the rich cucks
Racist but you like to watch your wife get fucked
Oh shit she's pregnant now and it ain't yours
Oh you like abortion now cause your wife's a whore
Just yesterday you wanted to say that it can go that way
And tomorrow you say hey maybe we can let go of that claim
I can't take these hypocritical
Religious fake ass mystical
Peices of shit
They're makin me so pissed
I can't take these hypocritical
Doing stuff out of their principle
But they don't do shit
When real problems exist
motherfucking people act so neigborly
yet its not the queers they're favoring
And they want the black eople slavery
call us red when not laboring
Old fucks who's dicks don't work
Over here say poors got no worth
How the fuck can they run this Earth
Everything they do continues the hurt
Just trying to live a good life
yet these old fucks hurtin my mind
Its about time to strike
And show these fuckers what its like
We control the companies
without us they'd be struggling
yet we are the ones left on our knees
in a contstant cycle of suffering
And I'm all the same
Said I'd quit jerkin off yesterday
But back to it going insane
Don't even have time to live with my pain
All the weight is crushing my brain
And I know all of you feel the same
So tell me why why we work this twelve to eight
I can't take these hypocritical
Religious fake ass mystical
Peices of shit
They're makin me so pissed
I can't take these hypocritical
Doing stuff out of their principle
But they don't do shit
When real problems exist
But nobody wanna kill the evil
Everybody actin so crazy
Just believe that we still
Have all the rigteousness inside of us
Oh you're a puss you got a gun
But too scared to use it on the rich cucks
Racist but you like to watch your wife get fucked
Oh you like abortion now cause your wife's a whore
Just yesterday you wanted to say that it can go that way
And tomorrow you say hey maybe we can let go of that claim
I can't take these hypocritical
Religious fake ass mystical
Peices of shit
They're makin me so pissed
I can't take these hypocritical
Doing stuff out of their principle
But they don't do shit
When real problems exist
motherfucking people act so neigborly
yet its not the queers they're favoring
And they want the black eople slavery
call us red when not laboring
Old fucks who's dicks don't work
Over here say poors got no worth
How the fuck can they run this Earth
Everything they do continues the hurt
Just trying to live a good life
yet these old fucks hurtin my mind
Its about time to strike
And show these fuckers what its like
We control the companies
without us they'd be struggling
yet we are the ones left on our knees
in a contstant cycle of suffering
And I'm all the same
Said I'd quit jerkin off yesterday
But back to it going insane
Don't even have time to live with my pain
All the weight is crushing my brain
And I know all of you feel the same
So tell me why why we work this twelve to eight
I can't take these hypocritical
Religious fake ass mystical
Peices of shit
They're makin me so pissed
I can't take these hypocritical
Doing stuff out of their principle
But they don't do shit
When real problems exist
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Matthew Sullivan, Logan Sollars
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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@topsiecret9997
2020...still pumpin‘ this
@kingofchill5175
Brooklyn on the 🎤💯
@alzero120z
When the red light is headin at your chest height you just might wanna make sure your vest tight nicca. One of the best lines to end a song right thea
@delirious44
How does Primo make a make beat that consists of just a basic two note piano sound so so good ? Just Ice and Kane went in nice to THUMBS UP ALL DAY
@wiktork
well, his signatur drums & bass :)
@blaquenoise
I blast Rare Play Vol.1 and 2 at least once a month. RIP Keith Elam.
@macdaddycane
one of the hardest tracks to find. prem is the illest brother!!
@wwilliaml619
I can't stop playing this!
@_Rustodian
Are you still playing it? 😎👌
@mrkingssizesnicker
BANGIN'!!!