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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 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 follow-up solo album, Home Invasion , was released through Priority Records .
Ice-T made reporters watch a 40-minute civil rights documentary before announcing the "Cop Killer" decision. "I don't understand why I'm supposed to like the police," he said after the documentary ...
Finally, Ice-T decided to remove "Cop Killer" from the album of his own volition, [5] [39] [45] a decision which was met by criticism from other artists who derided Ice-T for "caving in to external pressure". [46] In an interview, Ice-T stated that "I didn't want my band to get pigeon-holed as that's the only reason that record sold.
Today’s Ice-T — in the month prior to the U.S. election and before the death of one ... The irony of the “Cop Killer” — the song by his heavy metal band Body Count that resulted in a ...
One of Ice-T's top critics was actor Charlton Heston, who rallied against the rapper back in the 1990s following the release of “Cop Killer,” his song with his metal band Body Count.
The following day, Ice-T revealed that Body Count has signed with Sumerian Records. [26] 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]
Merciless is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Body Count.It was released on November 22, 2024, via Century Media Records.Production was handled by Ice-T, Vincent Price and Will Putney.