Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Welfare Recipients featured on the third album, The Desolate One (1989), from New York golden-age hip-hop rapper Joseph Williams Jr, aka Just-Ice. Whilst not as critically favoured as his previous albums, Back to the Old School (1986) and Kool & Deadly (1987), The Desolate One was Just-Ice’s most commercially successful, charting at #16 in the UK indie chart, not to mention frequent airplay on KROQ in the 90s from Sublime’s Bradley Nowell.
Welfare Recipients featured on the third album, The Desolate One (1989), from New York golden-age hip-hop rapper Joseph Williams Jr, aka Just-Ice. Whilst not as critically favoured as his previous albums, Back to the Old School (1986) and Kool & Deadly (1987), The Desolate One was Just-Ice’s most commercially successful, charting at #16 in the UK indie chart, not to mention frequent airplay on KROQ in the 90s from Sublime’s Bradley Nowell.










