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Ice-T, who wrote the song's lyrics, referred to "Cop Killer" as a "protest record", [7] stating that the song is "[sung] in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality". [8] Ice-T has also credited the Talking Heads song "Psycho Killer" with partially inspiring the song. [5] "
Ice-T's rock song infuriated government officials, the National Rifle Association of America, and various police advocacy groups. [ 2 ] [ 28 ] Consequently, Time Warner Music refused to release Ice-T's upcoming album Home Invasion because of the controversy surrounding "Cop Killer".
Ice-T defended creating the song, telling Associated Press, "At no point do I go out and say, 'Let's do it.' I'm singing in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality.
Ice-T referred to the album's final track, "Cop Killer" as a protest song, stating that the song is "[sung] in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality." [ 22 ] The song was written in 1990, and had been performed live several times, including at Lollapalooza, before it had been recorded in a studio. [ 18 ]
Ice-T also discussed how his 1992 single "Cop Killer," which he released with Body Count, created a lot of controversy While beefing might be the name of the game, Ice-T thinks it has become too ...
The song prompted the FBI to write to N.W.A's record company about the lyrics, expressing disapproval and arguing that the song misrepresented police. [8] [9] [10]In his autobiography Ruthless, the band's manager Jerry Heller wrote that the letter was actually a rogue action by a "single pissed-off bureaucrat with a bully pulpit" named Milt Ahlerich, who was falsely purporting to represent the ...
The public’s perception of police has changed since Ice-T joined “SVU” in 2000, with an increase in brutal acts by police, especially against Black men, being caught on camera.
Ice-T suggested that the album was going to be titled Rise! [26] or Manslaughter. [27] [28] On May 10, 2013, Ice-T announced that work on the fifth studio album had begun and that it would be titled Manslaughter. The album was released on June 10, 2014. [29] On May 13, 2014, Ice-T played the song "Talk Shit, Get Shot" as a teaser for the new album.