Power (Ice-T album)

Power
Studio album by Ice-T
Released	September 13, 1988 (1988-09-13)
Studio	Syndicate Studios West, Los Angeles
Genre	Gangsta rap
Length	48:02
Label	Sire
Producer	Ice-T Afrika Islam
Ice-T chronology
Rhyme Pays (1987) Power (1988) The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say! (1989)
Singles from Power
"I'm Your Pusher" Released: August 23, 1988 "High Rollers" Released: January 20, 1989

Power is the second studio album by American 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."^[1] The album contains lyrics that 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.

Two singles were released from the album: "I'm Your Pusher" and "High Rollers". The album was certified platinum by 2006. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic commented that on its release, Power received "strong reviews" and continued to receive positive retrospective reviews from music guides such as AllMusic, The Rolling Stone Album Guide and the Spin Alternative Record Guide.