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The article itself if very informative, yet a bit misleading. It states that Ice-T's song "Six In The Mornin" was one of the first rap songs ever recorded. This is grossly untrue. There had been plenty of rap songs recorded by that point in time. Grandmaster Flash, Schooly D, Run DMC, even the Beastie Boys can lay claim to having rap songs released before Ice-T came on the scene. A more correct description would be to state that it was one of the first 'gangsta rap' songs ever recorded. Nobody had come out with songs describing gang life and criminal behaviour like Ice-T. This is why he is known as the 'Godfather of Gangsta Rap'.
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I note that the brief material about his time in the Army is sourced only from Marrow's own memoir. Given the time when he served in the Army, the account of being jailed, escaping jail, going AWOL for a month, then returning to finish AIT seems more than a little far-fetched. In the period after the US withdrawal from Viet Nam, the Army routinely discharged soliders who got into trouble or went AWOL before completing training. Either there is a lot more to this story, or a lot less... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.128.142.45 (talk) 15:36, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
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The article itself if very informative, yet a bit misleading. It states that Ice-T's song "Six In The Mornin" was one of the first rap songs ever recorded. This is grossly untrue. There had been plenty of rap songs recorded by that point in time. Grandmaster Flash, Schooly D, Run DMC, even the Beastie Boys can lay claim to having rap songs released before Ice-T came on the scene. A more correct description would be to state that it was one of the first 'gangsta rap' songs ever recorded. Nobody had come out with songs describing gang life and criminal behaviour like Ice-T. This is why he is known as the 'Godfather of Gangsta Rap'.
[edit] Time in the Army
I note that the brief material about his time in the Army is sourced only from Marrow's own memoir. Given the time when he served in the Army, the account of being jailed, escaping jail, going AWOL for a month, then returning to finish AIT seems more than a little far-fetched. In the period after the US withdrawal from Viet Nam, the Army routinely discharged soliders who got into trouble or went AWOL before completing training. Either there is a lot more to this story, or a lot less... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.128.142.45 (talk) 15:36, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
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