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American rapper and actor (born 1958)

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Ice-T
Ice-T with Body Count at Wacken Open Air 2019
Born	Tracy Lauren Marrow (1958-02-16) February 16, 1958 (age 64) Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Rapper actor songwriter producer
Years active	1982–present
Spouse(s)	Coco Austin ​ (m. 2002)​
Partner(s)	Darlene Ortiz (1984–2001)[1]
Children	3
Musical career
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop gangsta rap political rap heavy metal rap metal
Instruments	Vocals
Labels	Saturn Sire Warner Bros. Priority Rhyme Syndicate Sumerian Century Media
Member of	Body Count
Formerly of	Uncle Jamm's Army
Website	icet.com
Musical artist
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1977–1979
Rank	Private First Class
Unit	25th Infantry Division
Website	icet.com

Tracy Lauren Marrow ^[2] (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and producer. He began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays—reportedly the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker. The following year, he founded the record label Rhyme $yndicate Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the "Rhyme $yndicate") and released another album, Power, which would go platinum. He also released several other albums that went gold.

Ice-T co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced on his 1991 rap album O.G. Original Gangster, on the track titled "Body Count". The band released their self-titled debut album in 1992. Ice-T encountered controversy over his track "Cop Killer", the lyrics of which discussed killing police officers. He asked to be released from his contract with Warner Bros. Records, and his next solo album, Home Invasion, was released later in February 1993 through Priority Records. Body Count's next album, Born Dead, was released in 1994, and Ice-T released two more albums in the late 1990s.

As an actor, Ice-T played small parts in the films Breakin' and its sequels, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo and Rappin', during the 1980s, before his major role debut, starring as police detective Scotty Appleton in New Jack City (1991). He received top billing for his role in Surviving the Game (1994) and continued to appear in small roles in TV series and other films throughout the 1990s. Since 2000, he has portrayed NYPD Detective/Sergeant Odafin Tutuola on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. A reality television show titled Ice Loves Coco ran for three seasons (2011–2013) on E!, featuring the home life of Ice-T and his wife Coco Austin. In 2018, he began hosting the true crime documentary In Ice Cold Blood on the Oxygen cable channel, which as of 2020 is in its third season.

Early life [edit]

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Ice-T on America's Pop Bubble + Advice for the Kids, Loudwire[5]

Tracy Lauren Marrow, the son of Solomon and Alice Marrow,^{[6] [7]} was born in Newark, New Jersey^[8] on February 16, 1958.^[9] Solomon was African-American and his mother Alice was from a Louisiana Creole background.^[6] For decades, Solomon worked as a conveyor belt mechanic at the Rapistan Conveyor Company. When Marrow was a child, his family moved to upscale Summit, New Jersey.^[6] The first time race played a major part in Marrow's life was at the age of seven, when he became aware of the racism leveled by his white friends towards black children. Marrow surmised that he escaped similar treatment because they thought that he was white due to his lighter skin.^{[3] [6]} Relaying this incident to his mother, she told him, "Honey, people are stupid"; her advice and this incident taught Marrow to control the way the negativity of others affected him.^[6]

His mother died of a heart attack when he was in third grade. Solomon raised Marrow as a single father for four years, with help from a housekeeper.^[6] Marrow's first experience with illicit activity occurred after a bicycle that his father bought him for Christmas was stolen. After Marrow told his father, Solomon shrugged, "Well, then, you ain't got no bike".^[6] Marrow stole parts from bicycles and assembled "three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes" from the parts; his father either did not notice or never acknowledged this.^[6] When Marrow was thirteen years old, Solomon also died of a heart attack.^{[6] [10]}

Following his father's death, the orphaned Marrow briefly lived with a nearby aunt, then was sent to live with his other aunt and her husband in View Park-Windsor Hills, an upper middle-class Black neighborhood in South Los Angeles.^[11] While his cousin Earl was preparing to leave for college, Marrow shared a bedroom with him. Earl was a fan of rock music and listened only to the local rock radio stations; sharing a room with him sparked Marrow's interest in heavy metal music.^[12]

High school, early criminal activity, military service [edit]

Marrow moved to the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles when he was in the eighth grade. He attended Palms Junior High, which was predominantly made up of white students, and included black students who traveled by bus from South Central to attend.^[11] He then attended Crenshaw High School, which was almost entirely made up of black students.^{[11] [13]}

Marrow stood out from most of his friends because he did not drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, or use drugs.^[14] During Marrow's time in high school, gangs became more prevalent in the Los Angeles school system. Students who belonged to the Crips and Bloods gangs attended Crenshaw, and fought in the school's hallways.^[11] Marrow, while never an actual gang member, was affiliated with the former.^[11] Marrow began reading the novels of Iceberg Slim, which he memorized and recited to his friends, who enjoyed hearing the excerpts and told him, "Yo, kick some more of that by Ice, T",^[14] giving Marrow his famous nickname. Marrow and other Crips wrote and performed "Crip Rhymes".^[15]

His music career started with the band of the singing group The Precious Few of Crenshaw High School. Marrow and his group opened the show, dancing to a live band. The singers were Thomas Barnes, Ronald Robinson and Lapekas Mayfield.

In 1975, at the age of seventeen, Marrow began receiving Social Security benefits resulting from the death of his father and used the money to rent an apartment for $90 a month.^[14] He sold cannabis and stole car stereos to earn extra cash, but he was not making enough to support his pregnant girlfriend. After his daughter was born, Marrow enlisted in the United States Army in October 1977. Following basic training, Marrow was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division.^{[14] [16]} During his time in the army Marrow was involved with a group of soldiers charged with the theft of a rug.^[14] While awaiting trial, he received a $2,500 bonus check and went absent without leave, returning a month later, after the rug had been returned. Marrow received a non-judicial punishment as a consequence of his dereliction of duty.^[14]

During his spell in the Army, Marrow became interested in hip hop music. He heard The Sugarhill Gang's newly released single "Rapper's Delight" (1979), which inspired him to perform his own raps over the instrumentals of this and other early hip-hop records. The music, however, did not fit his lyrics or form of delivery.^[15]

When he was stationed in Hawaii (where prostitution was not a heavily prosecuted crime) as a squad leader at Schofield Barracks, Marrow met a pimp named Mac.^[14] Mac admired that Marrow could quote Iceberg Slim, and he taught Marrow how to be a pimp himself.^[14] Marrow was also able to purchase stereo equipment cheaply in Hawaii, including two Technics turntables, a mixer, and large speakers. Once equipped, he then began to learn turntablism and rapping.^[15]

Marrow learned from his commanding officer that he could receive an early honorable discharge because he was a single father. Taking advantage of this, Marrow was discharged as a Private First Class (PFC - E3) in December 1979 after serving for two years and two months.^{[14] [16]}

During an episode of The Adam Carolla Podcast that aired on June 6, 2012, Marrow claimed that after being discharged from the Army, he began a career as a bank robber. Marrow claimed he and some associates began conducting take-over bank robberies "like [in the film] Heat". Marrow then elaborated, explaining, "Only punks go for the drawer, we gotta go for the safe." Marrow also stated he was glad the United States justice system has statutes of limitations, which had likely expired when Marrow admitted to his involvement in multiple Class 1 Felonies in the early-to-mid 1980s.^{[ citation needed ]}

In July 2010, Marrow was mistakenly arrested. A month later when Marrow attended court, the charges were dropped and the prosecution stated "there had been a clerical error when the rapper was arrested". Marrow gave some advice to young people who think going to jail is a mark of integrity, saying, "Street credibility has nothing to do with going to jail, it has everything to do with staying out."^[17]

Career [edit]

Music [edit]

Early career (1980–1981) [edit]

After leaving the Army, Marrow wanted to stay away from gang life and violence and instead make a name for himself as a DJ.^[15] As a tribute to Iceberg Slim, Marrow adopted the stage name Ice-T. While performing as a DJ at parties, he received more attention for his rapping, which led Ice-T to pursue a career as a rapper.^[15] After breaking up with his girlfriend Caitlin Boyd, he returned to a life of crime and robbed jewelry stores with his high school friends. Ice-T's raps later described how he and his friends pretended to be customers to gain access before smashing the display glass with baby sledgehammers.^{[15] [18]}

Ice-T's friends Al P. and Sean E. Sean went to prison. Al P. was caught in 1982 and sent to prison for robbing a high-end jewelry store in Laguna Niguel for $2.5 million in jewelry. Sean was arrested for possession of not only cannabis, which Sean sold, but also material stolen by Ice-T. Sean took the blame and served two years in prison. Ice-T stated that he owed a debt of gratitude to Sean because his prison time allowed him to pursue a career as a rapper.^[19] Concurrently, he wound up in a car accident and was hospitalized as a John Doe because he did not carry any form of identification due to his criminal activities.^[20] After being discharged from the hospital, he decided to abandon the criminal lifestyle and pursue a professional career rapping.^[20] Two weeks after being released from the hospital, he won an open mic competition judged by Kurtis Blow.^[21]

Professional career (1982–present) [edit]

Ice-T released a string of Electro records, including the 1984 single "Reckless" (pictured), before recording gangsta rap music

In 1982, Ice-T met producer Willie Strong from Saturn Records. In 1983, Strong recorded Ice-T's first single, "Cold Wind Madness", also known as "The Coldest Rap", an electro hip-hop record that became an underground success, becoming popular even though radio stations did not play it due to the song's hardcore lyrics.^[19] That same year, Ice-T released "Body Rock", another electro hip-hop single that found popularity in clubs. In 1984, Ice-T released the single "Killers", the first of his political raps, and then was a featured rapper on "Reckless", a single by DJ Chris "The Glove" Taylor and (co-producer) David Storrs. This song was almost immediately followed up with a sequel entitled "Reckless Rivalry (Combat)", which was featured in the Breakin' sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, however it was never featured on the soundtrack album and, to this day, has never been released. Ice later recorded the songs "Ya Don't Quit" and "Dog'n the Wax (Ya Don't Quit-Part II)" with Unknown DJ, who provided a Run–D.M.C.-like sound for the songs.^[21]

Ice-T received further inspiration as an artist from Schoolly D's gangsta rap single "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?", which he heard in a club. Ice-T enjoyed the single's sound and delivery, as well as its vague references to gang life, although the real life gang, Park Side Killers, was not named in the song.^[21]

Ice-T decided to adopt Schoolly D's style, and wrote the lyrics to his first gangsta rap song, "6 in the Mornin'", in his Hollywood apartment, and created a minimal beat with a Roland TR-808. He compared the sound of the song, which was recorded as a B-side on the single "Dog'n The Wax", to that of the Beastie Boys.^[21] The single was released in 1986, and he learned that "6 in the Mornin'" was more popular in clubs than its A-side, leading Ice-T to rap about Los Angeles gang life, which he described more explicitly than any previous rapper.^{[ citation needed ]} He intentionally did not represent any particular gang, and wore a mixture of red and blue clothing and shoes to avoid antagonizing gang-affiliated listeners, who debated his true affiliation.^[21]

Ice-T finally landed a deal with a major label Sire Records. When label founder and president Seymour Stein heard his demo, he said Ice-T sounded like Bob Dylan.^[22] Shortly after, he released his debut album Rhyme Pays in 1987 supported by DJ Evil E, DJ Aladdin and producer Afrika Islam, who helped create the mainly party-oriented sound. The record wound up being certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. That same year, he recorded the title theme song for Dennis Hopper's Colors, a film about inner-city gang life in Los Angeles. His next album Power was released in 1988, under his own label Rhyme Syndicate, and it was a more assured and impressive record, earning him strong reviews and his second gold record. Released in 1989, The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say! established his popularity by matching excellent abrasive music with narrative and commentative lyrics.^[2] In the same year, he appeared on Hugh Harris' single "Alice".^[23]

In 1991, he released his album O.G. Original Gangster, which is regarded as one of the albums that defined gangsta rap.^{[ citation needed ]} On OG, he introduced his heavy metal band Body Count in a track of the same name. Ice-T toured with Body Count on the first annual Lollapalooza concert tour in 1991, gaining him appeal among middle-class teenagers and fans of alternative music genres. The album Body Count was released in March 1992.^[2] For his appearance on the heavily collaborative track "Back on the Block", a composition by jazz musician Quincy Jones that "attempt[ed] to bring together black musical styles from jazz to soul to funk to rap", Ice-T won a Grammy Award for the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, an award shared by others who worked on the track including Jones and fellow jazz musician Ray Charles.^[24]

Controversy later surrounded Body Count over its song "Cop Killer". The rock song was intended to speak from the viewpoint of a criminal getting revenge on racist, brutal cops. Ice-T's rock song infuriated government officials, the National Rifle Association, and various police advocacy groups.^{[2] [25]} Consequently, Time Warner Music refused to release Ice-T's upcoming album Home Invasion because of the controversy surrounding "Cop Killer". Ice-T suggested that the furor over the song was an overreaction, telling journalist Chuck Philips "...they've done movies about nurse killers and teacher killers and student killers. Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that". In the same interview, Ice-T suggested to Philips that the misunderstanding of Cop Killer, the misclassification of it as a rap song (not a rock song), and the attempts to censor it had racial overtones: "The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer".^[25]

Ice-T split amicably with Sire/Warner Bros. Records after a dispute over the artwork of the album Home Invasion. He then reactivated Rhyme Syndicate and formed a deal with Priority Records for distribution. Priority released Home Invasion in the spring of 1993.^[26] The album peaked at No. 9 on Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at No. 14 on the Billboard 200,^[27] spawning several singles including "Gotta Lotta Love", "I Ain't New Ta This" and "99 Problems" – which would later inspire Jay-Z to record a version with new lyrics in 2003. In 2003 he released the single "Beat of Life" with Sandra Nasić, Trigga tha Gambler and DJ Tomekk and placed in the German charts.^{[28] [29]}

Ice-T had also collaborated with certain other heavy metal bands during this time period. For the film Judgment Night, he did a duet with Slayer on the track "Disorder".^[30] In 1995, Ice-T made a guest performance on Forbidden by Black Sabbath.^[7] Another album of his, VI – Return of the Real, was released in 1996, followed by The Seventh Deadly Sin in 1999.^[31]

His first rap album since 1999, Gangsta Rap, was released on October 31, 2006. The album's cover, which "shows [Ice-T] lying on his back in bed with his ravishing wife's ample posterior in full view and one of her legs coyly draped over his private parts", was considered to be too suggestive for most retailers, many of which were reluctant to stock the album.^[32] Some reviews of the album were unenthusiastic, as many had hoped for a return to the political raps of Ice-T's most successful albums.

Ice-T performing with Body Count in 2006

Ice-T appears in the film Gift. One of the last scenes includes Ice-T and Body Count playing with Jane's Addiction in a version of the Sly and the Family Stone song "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey".

Besides fronting his own band and rap projects, Ice-T has also collaborated with other hard rock and metal bands, such as Icepick, Motörhead, Slayer, Pro-Pain, and Six Feet Under. He has also covered songs by hardcore punk bands such as the Exploited, Jello Biafra, and Black Flag. Ice-T made an appearance at Insane Clown Posse's Gathering of the Juggalos (2008 edition).^[33] Ice-T was also a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.^[34] His 2012 film Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap features a who's who of underground and mainstream rappers.^[35]

In November 2011, Ice-T announced via Twitter that he was in the process of collecting beats for his next LP which was expected sometime during 2012, but as of October 2014^[update], the album has not been released. A new Body Count album, Bloodlust, was released in 2017.^[36] After the release of the album, responding to an interview question asking if he's "done with rap", he answered "I don't know" and noted that he's "really leaning more toward EDM right now".^[37] Body Count received their second Grammy nomination and later won the award at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021 for "Best Metal Performance" with their song "Bum-Rush" from the album Carnivore.^[38]

In July 2019, Ice-T released his first solo hip hop track in 10 years, titled "Feds in My Rearview". The track is the first in a trilogy, with the second track, "Too Old for the Dumb Shit", described as a prequel to "Feds in My Rearview", and released in September 2019.^[39] Ice-T was also featured on the 2020 hip hop posse cut "The Slayers Club" alongside R.A. the Rugged Man, Brand Nubian and others.

Ice-T performed at New Year's Eve Toast & Roast 2021, Fox broadcast.^{[40] [41]}

Acting [edit]

Television and film [edit]

Ice-T was prominently featured as both a rapper and a breakdancer in Breakin' 'n' Enterin' (1983), a documentary about the early West Coast hip hop scene.

Ice-T's first film appearances were in the motion pictures, Breakin' (1984), and its sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984). These films were released before Ice-T released his first LP, although he appears on the soundtrack to Breakin' . He has since stated he considers the films and his own performance in them to be "wack".^[42]

In 1991, he embarked on a serious acting career, portraying police detective Scotty Appleton in Mario Van Peebles' action thriller New Jack City, gang leader Odessa (alongside Denzel Washington and John Lithgow) in Ricochet (1991), gang leader King James in Trespass (1992), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game (1994), in addition to many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic (1995), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl (1995). He was also interviewed in the Brent Owens documentary Pimps Up, Ho's Down,^[43] in which he claims to have had an extensive pimping background before getting into rap. He is quoted as saying "once you max something out, it ain't no fun no more. I couldn't really get no farther." He goes on to explain his pimping experience gave him the ability to get into new businesses. "I can't act, I really can't act, I ain't no rapper, it's all game. I'm just working these niggas." Later he raps at the Players Ball.

In 1993, Ice-T, along with other rappers and the three Yo! MTV Raps hosts Ed Lover, Doctor Dré, and Fab 5 Freddy starred in the comedy Who's the Man?, directed by Ted Demme. In the movie, he is a drug dealer who gets really frustrated when someone calls him by his real name, "Chauncey", rather than his street name, "Nighttrain".

In 1995, Ice-T had a recurring role as vengeful drug dealer Danny Cort on the television series New York Undercover, co-created by Dick Wolf. His work on the series earned him the 1996 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. In 1997, he co-created the short-lived series Players, produced by Wolf. This was followed by a role as pimp Seymour "Kingston" Stockton in Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998). These collaborations led Wolf to add Ice-T to the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Since 2000 he has portrayed Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, a former undercover narcotics officer transferred to the Special Victims Unit. In 2002, the NAACP awarded Ice-T with a second Image Award, again for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, for his work on Law & Order: SVU.

Around 1995,^[44] Ice-T co-presented a UK-produced magazine television series on black culture, Baadasss TV.^[45]

In 1997, Ice-T had a pay-per-view special titled Ice-T's Extreme Babes which appeared on Action PPV, formerly owned by BET Networks.^{[46] [47]}

In 1999, Ice-T starred in the HBO movie Stealth Fighter as a United States Naval Aviator who fakes his own death, steals an F-117 stealth fighter, and threatens to destroy United States military bases. He also acted in the movie Sonic Impact, released the same year.

Ice-T made an appearance on the comedy television series Chappelle's Show as himself presenting the award for "Player Hater of the Year" at the "Player-Haters Ball", a parody of his own appearance at the Players Ball. He was dubbed the "Original Player Hater".

Beyond Tough, a 2002 documentary series, aired on Discovery Channel about the world's most dangerous and intense professions, such as alligator wrestlers and Indy 500 pit crews, was hosted by Ice-T.^[48]

In 2007, Ice-T appeared as a celebrity guest star on the MTV sketch comedy show Short Circuitz. Also in late 2007, he appeared in the short-music film Hands of Hatred, which can be found online.

Ice-T was interviewed for the Cannibal Corpse retrospective documentary Centuries of Torment, as well as appearing in Chris Rock's 2009 documentary Good Hair, in which he reminisced about going to school in hair curlers.^[49]

A 2016 advertisement for GEICO features Ice-T behind a lemonade stand run by children. When people ask if it is Ice-T, the actor yells back, "No, it's lemonade!"^[50]

In 2020, Ice-T competed on The Masked Singer spin-off The Masked Dancer where he portrayed "Disco Ball" and was the first to be eliminated.

Voice acting [edit]

Ice-T's voice acting roles include Madd Dogg in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as well as Agent Cain in Sanity: Aiken's Artifact. He also appears as himself in Def Jam: Fight for NY and UFC: Tapout fighting video games. He also voiced the character Aaron Griffin in the video game Gears of War 3.^[51] Marrow also made an appearance in the 2019 video game Borderlands 3, in which he voices the character of BALEX.^[52]

Other ventures [edit]

Podcasting [edit]

On December 27, 2013, Ice-T announced that he was entering podcasting in a deal with the Paragon Collective. Ice-T co-hosts the Ice-T: Final Level podcast^[53] with his longtime friend, Mick Benzo (known as Zulu Beatz on Sirius XM). They discuss relevant issues, movies, video games, and do a behind the scenes of Law & Order: SVU segment with featured guests from the entertainment world. The show will release new episodes bi-weekly. Guests have included Jim Norton.^[54] Ice-T released his first episode on January 7 to many accolades.^[55]

Reality television [edit]

On October 20, 2006, Ice-T's Rap School aired and was a reality television show on VH1. It was a spin-off of the British reality show Gene Simmons' Rock School, which also aired on VH1. In Rap School, rapper/actor Ice-T teaches eight teens from York Preparatory School in New York called the "York Prep Crew" ("Y.P. Crew" for short). Each week, Ice-T gives them assignments and they compete for an imitation gold chain with a microphone on it. On the season finale on November 17, 2006, the group performed as an opening act for Public Enemy.

On June 12, 2011, E! reality show Ice Loves Coco debuted. The show is mostly about his relationship with his wife, Nicole "Coco" Austin.^{[56] [57]}

In popular media [edit]

• In the Rick and Morty episode "Get Schwifty", "Ice-T" (voiced by show creator Dan Harmon) is portrayed as secretly being alien royalty exiled to Earth,^[58] whose natural shape is revealed to be a letter T made of water.^[59] Ice-T reacted on Twitter by saying "This happens with cartoonists after lots of drugs…. Fn Crazy!!"^[60]
• Stand-up comedian John Mulaney dedicates a long segment on his comedy special New in Town to the humorous expositional nature of Ice-T's role on Special Victims Unit, saying that his function on the show is to be perpetually amazed by bad things, despite being in a sex crimes unit.^[61]

Style and influence [edit]

Ice-T cites writer Iceberg Slim and rapper Schoolly D as influences, with Iceberg Slim's novels guiding his skills as a lyricist.^{[15] [21]} His favorite heavy rock acts are Edgar Winter, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.^[12] His hip hop albums helped shape gangsta rap, with music journalists tracing works of artists such as Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Eminem and N.W.A to "6 in the Mornin'".^[21]

A love of rock led Ice to use guitar in his albums, to provide his songs with edge and power, and to make his raps harder. He drew on the fusion of rock and hip hop by Rick Rubin-produced acts such as Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, and LL Cool J, who featured rock samples in their songs.^[12]

Body Count – whose 1992 debut album Ice described as a "rock album with a rap mentality"^[62] – is described as paving the way for the success of rap rock fusions by acts like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit.^{[12] [62]} However, Ice-T states that the band's style does not fuse the two genres, and that Body Count is solely a rock band.^[12]

In Hip Hop Connection, Ice listed his favorite rap albums:^[63]

10. Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
9. Eric B. & Rakim, Paid in Full
8. N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton
7. Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
6. The Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die
5. Dr. Dre, The Chronic
4. Boogie Down Productions, Criminal Minded
3. Ultramagnetic MCs, Critical Beatdown
2. Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1. Run-DMC, Run-DMC

Personal life [edit]

Ice-T with his wife Coco Austin

On March 20, 1976, Marrow's high school girlfriend Adrienne gave birth to their daughter LeTesha Marrow, and they continued attending high school while raising her.^[14] While filming Breakin' in 1984, he met his second girlfriend Darlene Ortiz, who was at the club where the film was shot. They began a relationship and Ortiz was featured on the covers of Rhyme Pays and Power.^[21] Ice-T and Ortiz had a son, Ice Tracy Marrow Jr., on November 23, 1991.^[21]

Ice-T married swimsuit model Nicole "Coco" Austin^[57] in January 2002.^[64] In celebration of their impending ninth wedding anniversary, the couple renewed their wedding vows on June 4, 2011.^[56] As of 2006, they owned a penthouse apartment in North Bergen, New Jersey.^[65] In 2012, they were building a five-bedroom house in Edgewater, New Jersey, that was expected to be completed by the end of the year.^[66] In 2015, the couple had their first child together, a daughter.^{[67] [68]}

Ice-T has stated on numerous occasions that he is a teetotaler, and lives a straight edge lifestyle.^{[69] [70]} He is a long time practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and boxing, and is a big fan of the UFC.^{[71] [72]}

Activism [edit]

During the popularity of Public Enemy, Ice-T was closely associated with the band and his recordings of the time showed a similar political viewpoint. He was referred to as "The Soldier of the Highest Degree" in the booklet for Fear of a Black Planet and mentioned on the track "Leave This Off Your Fuckin' Charts". He also collaborated with fellow anti-censorship campaigner Jello Biafra on his album The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!

On June 5, 2008, Ice-T joked that he would be voting for John McCain in the 2008 American elections, speculating that his past affiliation with Body Count could hurt Barack Obama's chances if he endorsed him, so he would choose instead to ruin McCain's campaign by saying he supported him.^{[73] [74]}

Personal disputes [edit]

LL Cool J [edit]

Ice-T had a feud with LL Cool J in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Apparently, this was instigated by LL's claim to be "the baddest rapper in the history of rap itself".^{[ citation needed ]} Ice-T recorded disses against LL on his 1988 album Power. On the album was the track, "I'm Your Pusher", in which a rap music addict declines to buy an LL Cool J record. The album also contains the posse rap track, "The Syndicate", which took aim at LL's lyrical ability, claiming that rapping about oneself so frequently was a "first grade topic".^{[ citation needed ]} The song also mocked the song's hook "I'm Bad", which identified it as an LL diss specifically. In the book Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies, Ice-T said that the song "Girls L.G.B.N.A.F." was also intended as a diss to LL Cool J, by making a crude song to contrast with the love songs that LL was making at the time.^[75]

On LL's response, "To da Break of Dawn" in 1990, he dissed Kool Moe Dee (whose feud with LL was far more publicized) as well as MC Hammer. He then devoted the third verse of the song to dissing Ice-T, mocking his rap ability ("take your rhymes around the corner to rap rehab"), his background ("before you rapped, you was a downtown car thief"), and his style ("a brother with a perm deserves to get burned"). He also suggested that the success of Power was due to the appearance of Ice-T's girlfriend Darlene on the album cover. Ice-T appeared to have ignored the insults and he had also defended LL Cool J after his arrest in the song "Freedom of Speech".^[76]

In August 2012, Ice-T said that the rivalry was "never serious" and that he needed a nemesis to create "an exciting dispute".^[77]

Soulja Boy [edit]

In June 2008, on DJ Cisco's Urban Legend mixtape, Ice-T criticized Soulja Boy (whose name is DeAndre Way) for "killing hip hop" and called his song "Crank That" "garbage" compared to the works of other hip-hop artists such as Rakim, Das EFX, Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube. One of the comments exchanged was Ice-T telling Way to "eat a dick".^[78] The two then traded numerous videos back and forth over the Internet. These videos included a cartoon and video of Ice-T dancing on Way's behalf and an apology, but reiteration of his feelings that Way's music "sucks", on Ice-T's behalf.^[79] Musician Kanye West defended Way saying, "He came from the 'hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song".^[80]

Discography [edit]

Filmography [edit]

Film [edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Breakin'	Rap Talker
1985	Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo	Radiotron Rapper
	Rappin'	Himself
1991	New Jack City	Scotty Appleton	Nominated: MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
	Ricochet	Odessa
1992	Why Colors?	Himself
	Trespass	King James
1993	CB4	Himself
	Who's the Man?	Nighttrain/Chauncey
	Gift	Himself	Video
1994	Surviving the Game	Jack Mason	First leading role
1995	Tank Girl	T-Saint
	Johnny Mnemonic	J-Bone
1996	Frankenpenis	Himself	Direct-to-video
1997	Below Utopia	Jim
	Rhyme & Reason	Himself	Documentary
	Mean Guns	Vincent Moon
	The Deli	Phil The Meat Man
1998	Crazy Six	Raul
	Pimps Up, Ho's Down	Himself	Documentary
1999	Sonic Impact	Agent Taja
	The Wrecking Crew	Menace
	The Heist	C-Note
	Frezno Smooth	DJ Superfly
	Judgment Day	Matthew Reese	Video
	Urban Menace	Narrator
	Stealth Fighter	Owen Turner	Also executive producer
	Final Voyage	Josef
	Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang	Justice Rough, The Judge
	Corrupt	Corrupt
2000	Gangland	Officer Dunn
	Leprechaun in the Hood	Mack Daddy	Video
	Luck of the Draw	Macneilly
	The Alternate	Agent Williams
2001	Kept	Jack Mosler
	Stranded	Jeffries	Johnathan
	Crime Partners 2000	King Fischer
	3000 Miles to Graceland	Hamilton
	Point Doom	Ringman
	Deadly Rhapsody	Wilson
	'R Xmas	The Kidnapper
	Guardian	Max
	Tara	Grady
	Ticker	Terrorist Commander
	Out Kold	Goldie
	Ablaze	Albert Denning
	Air Rage	Matt Marshall	Video
	Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy	Himself	Documentary
2002	On the Edge	Slim Jim
	Stranded	Jeffries
	Big Pun Still Not a Player	Himself	Documentary
2003	Beef	Himself	Documentary
	Cwalk: It's a Way of Livin	Himself	Documentary
	Tupac: Resurrection	Himself	Documentary
	Crime Partners	King Fischer
2004	Lexie	Rasheed	Video
	Up In Harlem	Himself
	Beef II	Himself	Documentary
	And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop	Himself
	Prison Ball	Narrator
2005	Tracks	Officer Brian Clark
	Fuck	Himself	Documentary
	There's a God on the Mic	Himself	Documentary
2006	Copy That	Himself
2007	Apartment 309	Detective Shearod
2008	A Family Underground	Himself	Direct-to-DVD documentary
2009	Good Hair	Himself	Documentary
	Tommy and the Cool Mule	Jackie A (voice)
2010	The Other Guys	Narrator	Uncredited
	GhettoPhysics	Himself	Docudrama
2011	The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique	Himself	Documentary
2011	Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation	Narrator	TV movie documentary, also executive producer
2012	Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap	Himself	Actor, director, producer
	Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp	Himself	Actor, producer
2013	Santorini Blue	Dr. Lewis
	Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire	Narrator
	Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn	Tyler Moss
2014	Crossed the Line	Miguel
2015	What Now	Himself
	The Ghetto	Victor
2016	How We Met	Narrator
2017	Bloodrunners	Chesterfield	Lead Bat
2019	UglyDolls	Peggy (voice)
2019	Public Enemy Number One	Executive Producer/Himself	Documentary directed/produced by Robert Rippberger and produced by Chris Chiari[81]
2020	Equal Standard	Croft	[82]

Television [edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Fame	One of the 'Enforcers'	Episode: "Break Dance"
1985	The Merv Griffin Show	Himself	Interview and live performance
1989	Yo! MTV Raps	Himself	3 episodes
1989–1994	The Arsenio Hall Show	Himself	7 interviews and live performances
1990	Rapmania: The Roots of Rap	Himself	TV Movie
	The Earth Day Special	Himself	Television special
	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Himself	Episode dated March 7, 1990
1990–1992	Ebony/Jet Showcase	Himself	2 Episodes
1991	Soul Train	Himself
1991-94	The Arsenio Hall Show	Himself	2 appearances
1994–2008	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Himself	17 appearances
1995	New York Undercover	Danny Up/Danny Cort	Episode: "CAT" Episode: "Catman Comes Back" Episode: "The Finals" (as Danny Cort)
	Baadasss TV	Co-host	Two series each of 6 episodes.
1996	Swift Justice	Earl Borgese	Episode: "Takin' Back the Street"
	MADtv	Host	Season 2 episode 2
	Later... with Jools Holland	Himself	Episode #7.4
1997	Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man	Taanzi	Episode: "Ebony, Baby"
	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Himself	Episode: "Needledrop"
	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Himself	Episode dated October 17, 1997
1997–98	Players	Isaac "Ice" Gregory	Main Cast
1998	Welcome to Paradox	Revell	Episode: "The Winner"
	Exiled	Seymour "Kingston" Stockton	Television film
	The Roseanne Show	Himself	Episode #1.26
1999	L.A. Heat	Cage	Episode: "Rap Sheet"
	Batman Beyond	Ramrod	Episode: "Splicers"
	V.I.P	The Prophet	Episode: "Val the Hard Way" Episode: "Val Goes To Town"
	Sin City Spectacular	Himself
	Later	Host	Episode dated February 8, 1999
2000	The Disciples	The Sensei	Television film
	PhatClips	Himself	Interview
	WrestleMania 2000	Himself	Performer
	Behind the Music	Himself	Episode: Ice-T
2000–present	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Detective/Sergeant Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Season 2–present (Main Cast), 456 episodes
2001	The Roast of Hugh Hefner	Himself	Roaster
	Weakest Link	Himself	Game show, Episode: Scene Stealers Edition
2002	Beyond Tough	Himself	Host
2002-06	Last Call with Carson Daly	Himself	3 appearances
2003	Chappelle's Show	Himself	Episode #1.9
2005	Law & Order	Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Episode: "Flaw" (second half of cross-over with Law & Order: SVU episode "Design").
2006	Ice-T's Rap School	Himself	Reality show
	The Wendy Williams Experience	Himself	Episode dated October 20, 2006
2007	Belzer Vizion	Himself	Interview
	Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav	Himself	Roaster
	etalk	Himself	Episode dated July 27, 2007
	Sesame Street	Himself	Episode: "Maria the Chicken"
2008	The Jace Hall Show	Himself	Episode: "Blizzard's World of Warcraft Feat. Ice T. & Coco"
2009	The Magic 7	Dr. Scratch (voice)	Animated TV movie
	The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien	Himself	1 appearance
2009–2010	I Get That a Lot	Himself	TV special
2010	All Star Mr & Mrs	Himself with his wife Coco	Final round
	The Jace Hall Show	Himself	3 episodes
	Sounds Like a Revolution	Himself	Documentary
2011–2013	Ice Loves Coco	Himself	Reality Show
	30 Rock	Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Episodes: ¡Qué Sorpresa!, Hogcock! & Last Lunch
2011	Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump	Himself	Audience member
	The Colbert Report	Himself	Guest
	Lopez Tonight	Himself	Guest
	Give it up for Greg Giraldo	Himself	Documentary
2012	Live! with Kelly	Himself	Interview
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Himself	Interview
	Alternative Press Music Awards	Himself
	Celebrities Undercover	Himself	1 episode
2014–2016	Chicago P.D.	Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Episodes: "Conventions", "The Number of Rats", "The Song of Gregory Williams Yates"
2015	Ice & Coco	Himself
2015	Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja	Superintendent	Episode:"The Fresh Principal of Norrisville High"
2016	Younger	Himself	Episode: "Secrets & Liza"
	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Himself	Episode: "Kimmy Sees a Sunset!"
	Hip-Hop Evolution	Himself	Music documentary series
2018	American Dad!	Himself	Episode: "The Census of the Lamb"
2019	Deadly Class [83]	Himself	Cameo
	Saturday Night Live	Sergeant Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Cameo
	Golden Revenge	Himself	Episode: "1.01"
2020	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Himself	Episode: "Ice-T and Coco"
	The Masked Dancer	Himself / Disco Ball	1 Episode
2021	Bubble Guppies	Garbage Khan (voice)	Episode: "A Load of Litterbugs!"
2023	Junkyard Dogs	Pongo (voice)	46 episodes

Videos [edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!	Himself	Music arranger: vocal arrangements for Mr. T
1989	The Iceberg Video	Himself	Includes music videos and live performances
1990	Slammin' Rap Video Magazine	Himself	Interview
1991	O.G. The Original Gangster Video	Himself	Includes music videos from O.G. Original Gangster
2002	The Repossession Live	Himself	Concert video
2003	Beat of Life	Himself	Includes music videos from DJ Tomekk
2005	Smokeout Festival Presents: Body Count and Ice-T	Himself	Concert video
	Live in L.A.	Himself	Concert video

Video games [edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Prime Mover		Amiga
2000	Sanity: Aiken's Artifact	Agent Nathaniel Cain	voice
2002	UFC: Tapout	Himself	voice
2004	Def Jam Fight for NY	Himself	voice and likeness
	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	Madd Dogg	voice
2006	Scarface: The World Is Yours	Himself	voice
2011	Gears of War 3	Aaron Griffin	voice and likeness
2019	Borderlands 3	Balex	voice[84]

As producer [edit]

Year	Title	Notes
1999	Judgment Day	Executive producer
1999	Stealth Fighter	Executive producer
1999	Urban Menace	Video
1999	Corrupt	Film
2000	The Wrecking Crew	Film
2002	Beyond Tough	TV series documentary, co-producer
2004	Up in Harlem	Associate producer
2008	Ice-T presents: 25 to life	Executive producer
2010	The Peacemaker	TV Series, executive producer 6 episodes
2011–2013	Ice Loves Coco	Executive producer, 29 episodes
2011	Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation	TV movie documentary, also narrator
2012	Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap	Executive producer
2012	Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp	Executive producer
2015	Ice & Coco	TV series, executive producer
2019	Public Enemy Number One	Feature documentary, executive producer

Awards and nominations [edit]

Sources:^{[85] [86]}

Grammy Awards [edit]

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1991	"Back on the Block"	Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group	Won
1992	"New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)"	Best Rap Solo Performance	Nominated
2018	"Black Hoodie"	Best Metal Performance	Nominated
2021	"Bum-Rush"		Won

MTV Video Music Awards [edit]

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1989	"Colors"	Best Rap Video	Nominated
1989	"Colors"	Best Video from a Film	Nominated
1991	"New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)"	Best Rap Video	Nominated

MTV Movie Awards [edit]

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1992	New Jack City	Best Breakthrough Performance	Nominated

Image Awards [edit]

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1996	New York Undercover	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Won
2002	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Won
2004	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Nominated
2006	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	Nominated
2012	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Nominated

Adult Video News Awards [edit]

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
2004	"Pimpin' 101 "	Best Non-Sex Performance - Film or Video	Nominated

News & Documentary Emmy Award [edit]

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
2012	"Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation"	Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming	Nominated

All Def Movie Awards [edit]

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
2016	Surviving the Game	Best Black Survivor in a Movie	Nominated

Bibliography [edit]

• The Ice Opinion: Who Gives a Fuck?, with Heidi Siegmund (1994)^[87]
• Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption – from South Central to Hollywood (2011)^[88]
• Kings of Vice (2011)^[89]
• Mirror Image (2013)^[90]

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