I'm Your Pusher

Album: Power (1988)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is based on the 1972 Curtis Mayfield song "Pusherman," which is sampled in the hook. Mayfield's song, from the movie Super Fly, is about a drug dealer, but Ice-T's pusher is selling music. The dope he's offering is dope beats and lyrics.

    This theme is true to life: Ice-T stayed away from drugs.
  • A track from Ice-T's second album, Power, "I'm Your Pusher" helped establish him as a streetwise hustler with a new look and sound. "That was setting the tone for what Ice-T was," he said in a Songfacts interview. "'Pusherman' was as much about a song as an image. You know, here comes a rapper with a perm and tailor-made clothes, and he doesn't look like Run-DMC. This is something different."
  • Like most of his early work, Ice-T collaborated on this track with producer Afrika Islam. Curtis Mayfield is also credited on the track for the "Pusherman" sample.
  • Ice-T made a video for this song that was released around the same time Yo! MTV Raps debuted. The video starts with a newscast reporting the story of Ice-T stealing master tapes as opposed to drugs.

Comments: 2

  • Moosehead from ScICE!!! why dont you like LL? that part of the song isnt listed above. make the music with your mouth Biz!
  • Super Dave from 220 28th St.If i Could I would like to tell ice t "Thank You"
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