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Lot #102:

Ice T and Darlene Ortiz Signed "Power" Album

Ice T and Darlene Ortiz Signed “Power” Album.

Signed by Ice T, Darlene Ortiz and DJ Evil E in black felt tip pen on the cover.

Good condition.

Power is the second studio album by rapper Ice-T, released on September 13, 1988 by Sire Records. Recorded at Syndicate Studios West in Los Angeles, the home studio of DJ Evil E, it was produced by Ice-T and Afrika Islam. The Los Angeles Daily News noted that its lyrical themes ranged from sex to gun violence, and that Ice-T "implicates everyone from radio programmers to the police as accomplices in the decline of western civilisation." The album contains lyrics which began a feud between Ice-T and rapper LL Cool J. The album cover, which features Ice-T's then-girlfriend Darlene Ortiz, Ice-T, and DJ Evil E, was described as "perpetuating stereotypes" by the Chicago Tribune and "violence-glorifying" by both the Chicago Sun-Times and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Authentication: Gotta Have Rock and Roll Certificate of Authenticity.