Behind Bars
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1991 TV Special hosted by comedian Paul Rodriguez in San Quentin Prison. I find a few factors totally amazing; first, Ice is right in the belly of the beast with nothing between him and the inmates, second, he heads down into the crowd and proceeds to run across the tables the inmates are sitting at and finally, how I find this performance very entertaining. I am interested in hearing your thoughts when you watch this, the prison throws a different dynamic on the regular live performance.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
i dont think this could happen today cause these rappers are phonys and no one respescts them
February 16th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Super Love…You are right! Someone like Yeezy or Wayne woudl get eatten up. Only rapper alive that could do this is prob. C-Murder..ha.
I am an avid record collector and I speacialize in prison recordings. Mostly I have great records of prison born blues musciains, the Lifers Group album and various country albums recorded inprison….but I would kill foro some Ice-T prison recordings.
Everything is magnified in prison. U think a guy with 40 year sentence is gonna be hittn up rap shows when he is out? HELL NAH…..so this makes the ONLY chance for some to see a concert period. You catch some of the dudes with stone faces the whole time though.
GREAT GREAT footage. What special was this from?
February 16th, 2009 at 11:19 am
i am surprised ICE didn’t play that one hot ass prison track off his album OG.
That thing woudl have single handily started a riot.
February 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
the special is called behind bars
February 25th, 2009 at 3:21 am
this is totally amazing!
February 28th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
this footage is crazy! i’m gonna embed on my site…shomerde.com
March 12th, 2009 at 11:06 am
If efforts to stay on topic, this particular show “at the time” was actually wack. It showed no insight on how they could actually change ones situation. It focused more on Sob Stories and made for good television. I think it this on Channel 9 WOR-TV.
Please keep in mind ICE-T & Paul Rodriguez were on top of the game and everyone in the “HipHop Community” was on some “all in the same gang” situation. This Prison Show was a direct effect of a previous pay per view HipHop show that aired in 1990 IN FACT ICE Dissed LL Cool J (the same slick way he got at Soulja Boy) where he said, “you know what LL-my education is my mind”.
For those wondering why LL Dissed Him on “Break a Dawn”.
Churrrch….
March 14th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
nice work nice work… it was amazing to watch Ice’s slow decline from Colors to Pusher to Iceberg to OG to Body Count to Law and Order.
I have a VHS copy of Much Music Ice T live in Vancouver 1989. I saw the exact, to the T (no puns), same show in Waterloo… me and 4 other suburban 13 year-olds got to hang out backstage with Ice, Evil E, Coolio, WC, DJ Aladdin (Low Profile) , Donald D… we thought we were awesome for weeks. It`s still up there for top moments of my life.
November 28th, 2011 at 10:00 am
Why these videos dont work in my computer?