Ice-T signed to Sire Records in 1984.
Ice-T . He began his career as a rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987 , when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays , one of the first hip-hop albums to carry an explicit content sticker . Madonna ( retitled Madonna : The First Album for the 1985 rerelease ) is the debut album by American singer and songwriter Madonna , released on July 27 , 1983 by Sire Records .