Blade Icewood
Blood, Sweat & Tears
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See all on eBay →“Blood, Sweat & Tears” is a 2005 album by Detroit rapper Blade Icewood, issued on CD by Icewood Entertainment with Blade credited as executive producer.
The story
The album followed his 2004 solo release “Stackmaster” and came in the same year as his death in April 2005. Icewood Entertainment, the label named on the release, is the company his family established after he died. The title track features Street Lord Juan, connecting the record to the Street Lord’z crew he had come up with on Detroit’s west side.
Sound and production
The CD holds 18 tracks, including skits, an intro and cuts such as “Game On Lock”, “Love For My City”, “Mobb Music” and “We Gone Ball”. Royce da 5’9″ guests on “Chips On Pistons”. Discogs notes that the printed insert omits track number 15. The release is tagged hip hop with a gangsta style.
Legacy
The album contains “Ride On Me”, which Wikipedia describes as an underground Detroit classic. Blade Icewood’s life and death were later revisited in TV One’s “Sins of the City” in 2023.
Tracklist & credits
- 1Intro
- 2All To You
- 3Blood, Sweat And Tears
- 4Skit
- 5Chips On Pistons
- 6Game On Lock
- 7Ride On Me
- 8Skit
- 9Icewood
- 10Love For My City
- 11Like That
- 12Skit
- 13Shorty On My Side
- 14What You Gone Do
- 15Mobb Music
- 16Ghetto
- 17Cash Out
- 18We Gone Ball
Tracklist and producer credits: Discogs. Gear credits: Breakbeat Archive, sourced on each credit.
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