TRACKLISTING

01. Going Way Back
02. The Original Gangster Of Hip Hop
03. Freedom Of Speech
04. Moshitup
05. Kool & Deadly
06. On The Strength
07. Lyric Licking
08. Booga Bandit Bitch
09. Freedom Of Speech ’88 (12′ Single Edit)

Kool & Deadly (Justicizms) is the second album by old school/hardcore rapper Just-Ice, it was released in 1987, and was produced by KRS-One and Just-Ice. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source magazine’s 100 Best Rap Albums. 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. (very popular in New York at this time), 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 (Justicizms), an album that swapped Mantronik’s hi-tech skills for raw, elemental beats and rhymes.

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