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Certain Songs #673: Ice-T – “Midnight”

October 18, 2016 by Jim Connelly

ice-t-og Album: O.G. Original Gangster
Year: 1991

When Ice-T went big, he went utterly massive.

And perhaps his most massive jam was the probably-not-completely-apocryphal “Midnight,” an utterly riveting travelog centering on a skirmish in the gang wars that he often chronicled.

“Midnight” was also one of his more successful rap/metal fusions — I never really liked Body Count, his out-and-out thrash band — welding the doomy riff of Black Sabbath’s “Black Sabbath” to John Bonham’s crazy stupid fly slamming beat from “When The Levee Breaks.”

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Ice-T, Midnight, O.G. Original Gangster

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