i was listening to "First Things First" (released 2007 ofc), where Blu raps "Women be mentioning ya' whips and your chains/So I flip it like slaves come with whips and chains" and was wondering what the earliest recorded instance is of a rapper employing this bit of wordplay (besides the other time he uses it on this album)

any lebron-level hip-hop historians suspect they know the answer

So catch me if you mothafuckin' can
I said, "Fuck the police", in '89, didn't ya understand?
And s*** ain't changed, s*** still the same, blowin' out brains
Whips and chains, and I'll be damned if I be slaved

- Eazy E

Released in 2002 but obviously recorded earlier