Freedom of Speech

Review Score: (6/10)
For me Ice-T is one of the best rappers ever and I've spent long hours listening to his hardcore gangster rap. Kind of odd for a middle-aged white guy but what can I say? His in your face, pro-freedom of speech attitude is one that I hold myself. He is one of the founding fathers of gangster rap and one of it's most innovative lyricists. I've seen Ice-T do his rap act only once but have seen him with his band Body Count four times and he puts on a tremendous show.

Freedom of Speech...dropped on us in 1989 was also a time of a movement in the record industry, because of pressure by parents groups, to put an explicit lyrics label on albums. This album in a lot of ways is a reaction to that.

This album has some clever lyrics but and is entertaining, although at times it becomes a little tedious. It still rates a sold 3 stars for three songs:

Peel Their Cap Back *
Girl Tried to Kill Me *
My Word is Bond *

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Ratings: CDs are rated simply by how many good songs are on the album. Great songs get two stars, and good songs get one star. Songs that get no stars are those that I might like but not enough to give it a star or ones I find boring or actively dislike. CDs are not penalized for songs that I don't like because they are easy enough to skip over. There is no maximum number of stars a CD can get, but of course the more stars it gets, the better the CD.

As with all reviews, these are my subjective opinions on the album.


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