Champaign-Urbana, IL - Musician, producer, composer, audio designer, and DJ Larry E. Gates II has played hundreds of stages across the nation and has shared those stages with the likes of Chuck Berry, G. Love & Special Sauce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Local H, Superdrag, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Nappy Roots, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove, Illogic, and many others.
Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 8:41AM Before he was hard nosed detective Odafin Tutuola on Law & Order: SVU - or before he was T-Saint in Tank Girl for that matter, Ice-T was a rapper. In 1988 I bought Power - a gritty album full of street hustler tales over dope break beats. Dig the classic "High Rollers".
High Rollers, Ice-T, Law & Order: SVU, Odafin Tutuola, Power, T-Saint, Tank Girl, Video in Throwback Thursdays Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 10:15AM In an effort to outdue my Monday post, I dug up this special one-time appearance on the Arsenio Hall Show. It was 1990 and gang violence was a national concern. In an effort to squash the beef, the hottest rappers in the game came together to preach a message of peace. Funny, cause some of these cats (namely Ice-T and Eazy-E) had made a fortune on promoting violence in their music. Hmm.
