Following Thee Suspect and 20 lost years of OC hip-hop

PHOTO by JEFF GOULD
West Coast hip-hop was just learning how to walk in 1987. Ice-T had released Rhyme Pays—the first hip-hop album stamped with a parental advisory—while giant live hip-hop-fueled flyer parties were starting up all over LA and Orange County and 15-year-old Santa Ana native [...]