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Related: Ice-T and David Gilmour Team Up for New Version of Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb' Ice-T made reporters watch a 40-minute civil rights documentary before announcing the "Cop Killer" decision.
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 ] "
Tracy Lauren Marrow [2] (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T (or Ice T), is an American rapper and actor. He is active in both hip hop and heavy metal . Ice-T 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 .
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]
Ice-T was involved in a heated exchange with a police officer during a traffic stop that was captured on bodycam footage that has now surfaced online. The incident took place in Hudson County, New ...
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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.
Ice, who takes riffs and songs written by his band and rearranges them to his liking before coming up with lyrics, adds, “People don't understand that when you make a record, you might put on 12 ...