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Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1958, Ice-T lost his parents at a young age. After moving to south central Los Angeles to live with an aunt, he became involved with inner city crime and hustling. His talent for rhyme saved him from a life on the streets, and in 1987 he released his debut album, Rhyme Pays. In the 1990s, Ice-T became famous for his controversial political songs like "Cop Killer." The rapper also has a career as an actor, most notably playing a detective on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since 2000. Early Life The man who would become famous as Ice-T was born Tracy Marrow in Newark, New Jersey, on February 16, 1958. He grew up in Summit, New Jersey, with his parents. In his book Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—From South Central to Hollywood, Ice-T says of his dad, "He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude ... Despite the fact that Summit is predominantly white, I can't say there was overt prejudice in the town, at least not within the adult world as I observed it. All my father's friends, all the guys he worked with, were white working-class dudes. Lunch-bucket dudes. Black and white, they were all cool with one another." When Ice-T was in third grade, his mother suddenly died of a heart attack. He says, "My mother was a very supportive and smart woman, and I know she cared about me, although she wasn't very affectionate toward me. I only have a few specific memories of her, vague and distant, like some grainy home movie, someplace in the back of my mind." Just four years later, his dad also suffered a fatal heart attack. "I was still so young that the experiences of both of my parents' deaths are kind of blurred together in my mind. And being an only child, I was going through all of it in my own little bubble," says Ice-T. After the death of his dad, Ice-T moved to South Central Los Angeles to live with his aunt. It was there that the sixth grader became involved in inner-city life that would define his career as a rapper and later give him the credibility to become a spokesman against gang violence. Despite disapproval from his friends, Ice-T managed to graduate from high school with good grades. Turning normal teenage delinquency on its head, he later admitted to "acting like I was ditching class when I was really ditching my friends so I could slip back to school." Rap Career Before beginning his rap career in the early 1980s, Ice-T spent four years in the United States Army, after which he returned to Los Angeles and took up a life as a self-styled hustler. Crime paid for a time, allowing Ice-T to take impromptu trips to the Bahamas and collect over 350 pairs of sneakers, but soon his addiction to the high life began to fade. In an interview, Ice-T recalled his breaking point: "I had a friend who I looked up to, 'cause he made more money than me. And he said, 'Yo, Ice, you got a chance. Do that rap thing.' And that word 'chance' messed up my mind. And I just gave up hustling completely." Because every hip-hop artist needs a nom de guerre, "Ice-T" came into being with help from author Robert Maupin Beck III, whose pen name "Iceberg Slim" became Tracy Marrow's inspiration. After spending a few years honing his craft by creating music for videos and releasing various recordings, Ice-T signed with Sire Records in 1987. Later that year, he released Rhyme Pays, his debut album, which eventually went gold. His recording of the theme song for Dennis Hopper's gang-themed movie Colors (1987) also garnered the new artist plenty of attention. The movie explored life in the Los Angeles projects and marked the beginning of Ice-T's controversial depictions of South Central in his artistic work. When the black community pushed back against Colors' cultural critique, Ice-T said, "People should give Dennis Hopper credit—he deglamorized the situation. He just showed the street gangsters. He didn't show the kids wearing their diamonds and cruising in their Ferraris." Ice-T released two more albums in the late 1980s, confirming his status as one of West Coast rap's most promising stars. His album O.G. Original Gangster (1991) was later cited as one of the key factors in developing the genre of gangster rap. Mixing social commentary with inflammatory lyrics, the rapper pushed musical boundaries by recording a heavy metal track with the band Body Count. He would later tour with the band and play at the rock-oriented Lollapalooza festival. In 1992, Ice-T again collaborated with Body Count on their self-titled debut album, a record that included the most controversial song of Ice-T's career: "Cop Killer." This song quickly drew widespread condemnation for inciting violence against police officers. The artists claimed that the song was simply intended as a commentary on the police brutality and racism felt by the black community in Los Angeles. Nonetheless, the contentious track led to a firestorm of controversy, prompting Time Warner to block the release of Home Invasion, Ice-T's next solo album. The artist soon broke with Sire/Warner Bros. Records, releasing his work for the remainder of the 1990s through his own Rhyme Syndicate and Priority Records. The next eight years would yield a number of Billboard hits, several groundbreaking singles, and further collaboration with heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath and Slayer. Acting Debut Parallel to his music career, Ice-T was also building his resume on the big screen, finding roles in movies such as New Jack City (1991), Ricochet (1991), Trespass (1992) and Johnny Mnemonic (1995). Somehow the rapper-turned-actor found time to build a television career as well, including multiple guest-star appearances and even his own reality show on VH1, Ice-T's Rap School. Ice-T's most notable and long-lasting television role has been as Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Ice-T has worked on this popular NBC police drama since 2000. Ice-T's most recent labor of love is The Peacemaker: L.A. Gang Wars, a reality show on A&E that chronicles the life of gang mediator Malik Spellman. Like the show's star, producer Ice-T is now strongly committed to ending violence in the place he grew up, hoping the word "chance" will mean as much to a younger generation as it did to him when it first inspired him to escape the streets via hip-hop. When talking about his own opportunity, Ice-T makes no bones about where he would be without music: "I was so programmed into being a hustler that if I hadn't had a chance to rap, I'd either be dead or in jail—or I'd be rich, but I knew the odds were against it." Personal Life Ice-T is a father to two children by his first wife Darlene Ortiz: daughter Letesha and son Tracy Marrow Jr., sometimes known as Lil' T. In 2005, Ice-T married his second wife, the model Coco (née Nicole Austin), with whom he starred in the reality show, Ice Loves Coco (2011-2013), on E! In 2015, a month ahead of their eponymous talk show debut, Ice-T and Coco announced they were expecting their first child. The couple welcomed daughter Chanel Nicole on November 28, 2015. "Cop Killer" is a song by American heavy metal band Body Count, from its 1992 self-titled debut album. The song's words were written by Body Count's lead vocalist, Ice-T, while its music was written by the band's lead guitarist, Ernie C. The song was written in 1990, and was partially influenced by "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads.[3] The song's lyrics about "cop killing" provoked much controversy and negative reactions from political figures of the time, such as President George H.W. Bush[4] and Vice President Dan Quayle,[4] as well as Tipper Gore,[5] co-founder of Parents Music Resource Center. Others defended the song on the basis of the band's First Amendment rights. Ice-T has referred to it as a "protest record."[6] Ice-T eventually recalled the album and re-released it without the inclusion of the song, which was given away as a free single.[1] Contents     1 Background     2 Reaction         2.1 Criticism and controversy         2.2 Defense of the song         2.3 Further controversy and decision to withdraw song     3 Covers     4 Track listing     5 References     6 External links Background Ice-T referred to "Cop Killer" as a "protest record,"[6] stating that the song is "[sung] in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality."[7] Ice-T has also credited the Talking Heads song "Psycho Killer" with partially inspiring the song.[3] "Cop Killer" was written in 1990, and had been performed live several times, including at the 1991 Lollapalooza tour, before it had been recorded in a studio.[8] The recorded version mentions then-Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, and Rodney King, a black motorist whose beating by LAPD officers had been caught on videotape. Shortly after the release of Body Count, a jury acquitted the officers and riots broke out in South Central Los Angeles. Soon after the riots, the Dallas Police Association and the Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas (CLEAT) launched a campaign to force Warner Bros. Records to withdraw the album.[4] Reaction Following its release, the song was met with strong opposition, with critics ranging from former President Bush to various law enforcement agencies, with strong demand for the song's withdrawal from commercial availability, citing concerns of promoting anti-police sentiment. Conversely, Ice-T defended the lyrical content of the song as did various other proponents who did not believe that the song posed any risk and remained in support of the song continuing to be released and sold. Criticism and controversy CLEAT (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas) called for a boycott of all products by Time-Warner in order to secure the removal of the song and album from stores.[9] Within a week, they were joined by police organizations across the United States.[4] In an article for the Washington Post, Tipper Gore condemned Ice-T for songs like "Cop Killer," writing that "Cultural economics were a poor excuse for the South's continuation of slavery. Ice-T's financial success cannot excuse the vileness of his message [...] Hitler's anti-Semitism sold in Nazi Germany. That didn't make it right."[5] Some critics argued that the song could cause crime and violence.[4][10] Dennis R. Martin (Former President, National Association of Chiefs of Police) argued that: “     The misuse of the First Amendment is graphically illustrated in Time-Warner's attempt to insert into the mainstream culture the vile and dangerous lyrics of the Ice-T song entitled 'Cop Killer'. The Body Count album containing 'Cop Killer' was shipped throughout the United States in miniature body bags. Only days before distribution of the album was voluntarily suspended, Time-Warner flooded the record market with a half million copies. The 'Cop Killer' song has been implicated in at least two shooting incidents and has inflamed racial tensions in cities across the country. Those who work closely with the families and friends of slain officers volunteering for the American Police Hall of Fame and Museum, are outraged by the message of 'Cop Killer'. It is an affront to the officers—144 in 1992 alone—who have been killed in the line of duty while the pulse was upholding the laws of our society and protecting all its citizens.[11]     ” Defense of the song Others defended the album on the basis of the group's right to freedom of speech, and cited the fact that Ice-T had portrayed a police officer in the 1991 film, New Jack City.[12] Many people from the music world and other fields were supportive of the song. For example, in direct response to the criticism made by Dennis Martin above, Mark S. Hamm and Jeff Ferrell argued the following: “     Ice-T is not the first artist to put a 'cop killer' theme in United States popular culture. This theme has been the subject of countless cinematic and literary works, and has appeared many times before in popular music. During the Great Depression, for example, people celebrated Pretty Boy Floyd and his exploits, which included murdering law enforcement personnel. Similarly, the highly respected fiddler Tommy Jarrell wrote and sang 'Policeman,' which begins, 'Policeman come and I didn't want to go this morning, so I shot him in the head with my 44.' But perhaps the best-known case is Eric Clapton's cover version of Bob Marley and the Wailers' 'I Shot the Sheriff,' which reached the top of the U.S. music charts in the mid-1970s (a feat not approached by Ice-T). 'I Shot the Sheriff,' though, never suffered the sort of moral and political attacks that 'Cop Killer' did. How do we account for this difference?[13]     ” Ice-T stated of the song, "I'm singing in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality. I ain't never killed no cop. I felt like it a lot of times. But I never did it. If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut," in reference to Bowie's song "Space Oddity".[14] In a July 1992 editorial in The Wall Street Journal defending his company's involvement with the song, Time-Warner co-CEO Gerald M. Levin repeated this defense, writing that rather than "finding ways to silence the messenger," critics and listeners should be "heeding the anguished cry contained in his message."[15] The National Black Police Association opposed the boycott of Time-Warner and the attacks on "Cop Killer," identifying police brutality as the cause of much anti-police sentiment, and proposing the creation of independent civilian review boards "to scrutinize the actions of our law enforcement officers" as a way of ending the provocations that caused artists such as Body Count "to respond to actions of police brutality and abuse through their music. [...] Many individuals of the law enforcement profession do not want anyone to scrutinize their actions, but want to scrutinize the actions of others."[9] Further controversy and decision to withdraw song Over the next month, controversy against the band grew. Vice President Quayle branded 'Cop Killer' 'obscene', and President Bush publicly denounced any record company that would release such a product.[4] Body Count was removed from the shelves of a retail store in Greensboro, North Carolina after local police had told the management that they would no longer respond to any emergency calls at the store if they continued to sell the album.[9] In July 1992, the New Zealand Police Commissioner unsuccessfully attempted to prevent an Ice-T concert in Auckland, arguing that "Anyone who comes to this country preaching in obscene terms the killing of police, should not be welcome here,"[12] before taking Body Count and Warner Bros. Records to the Indecent Publications Tribunal, in an effort to get it banned under New Zealand's Indecent Publications Act 1963. This was the first time in twenty years that a sound recording had come before the censorship body, and the first ever case involving popular music.[12] After reviewing the various submissions, and listening carefully to the album, the Tribunal found the song "Cop Killer" to be "not exhortatory," saw the album as displaying "an honest purpose," and found Body Count not indecent.[12] At the July 1992 annual shareholders' meeting for Time-Warner, actor Charlton Heston, who was a minor Time-Warner shareholder, was given the opportunity to address the crowd, and, in a well publicized speech, recited lyrics from both "Cop Killer" and another song from Body Count, "KKK Bitch" - which namechecked Tipper Gore herself - in an attempt to embarrass company executives into dropping the album.[16] Some death threats were sent to Warner Bros. Records executives, and some stockholders threatened to pull out of the company.[6] According to his 1994 book The Ice Opinion: Who Gives a ?, Ice-T decided to remove the song from the album of his own volition.[6] Eventually, the album was re-issued with "Cop Killer" removed. Alongside the album's reissue, Warner Bros. issued "Cop Killer" as a free single.[1] Ice-T left the label in 1993, following additional disputes over his solo album Home Invasion.[6] The performer stated of the controversy that "When I started out, [Warner] never censored us. Everything we did, we had full control over. But what happened was when the cops moved on Body Count they issued pressure on the corporate division of Warner Bros., and that made the music division, they couldn't out-fight 'em in the battle, so even when you're in a business with somebody who might not wanna censor you, economically people can put restraints on 'em and cause 'em to be afraid. I learned that lesson in there, that you're never really safe as long as you're connected to any big corporation's money."[17] Warner Bros. Records chairman Mo Ostin said in a 1994 interview with the Los Angeles Times, "(Time Warner) got so thin-skinned after the incident at the shareholders' meeting. In the end, Ice-T decided to leave because he could not allow tampering with his work. And I can't blame him--considering the climate." Expressing regret at the circumstances leading to Ice-T's departure, Ostin praised him as "a terrific artist who spoke the truth."[18] The studio version of "Cop Killer" has not been re-released, although a live version of the song appears on the 2005 release Body Count: Live in LA. According to Ernie C, the controversy over the song "still lingers for us, even now. I'll try to book clubs and the guy I'm talking to will mention it and I'll think to myself, 'Man, that was 17 years ago,' but I meet a lot of bands who ask me about it too and I'm real respected by other artists for it. But it's a love/hate thing. Ice gets it too, even though he plays a cop on TV now on Law & Order SVU."[8] Covers     Australian comedy show The Late Show featured a sketch in 1992 with vocal quartet The Kinsmen doing a smooth jazz parody of "Cop Killer".     Soundgarden covered "Cop Killer" at a few live shows, including Lollapalooza '92 at which it was introduced as a "politically incorrect song".     A.N.I.M.A.L. recorded a Spanish version included in their 1998 album, Poder Latino.     Boston based hardcore band Our Lives featuring members of the band Vanna covered "Cop Killer" on a split EP with New York City band Kills and Thrills. Tracy Lauren Marrow,[2] 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. Contents 1 Early life 1.1 High school, early criminal activity, military service 2 Career 2.1 Music 2.1.1 Early career (1980–1981) 2.1.2 Professional career (1982–present) 2.2 Acting 2.2.1 Television and film 2.2.2 Voice acting 2.3 Other ventures 2.3.1 Podcasting 2.3.2 Reality television 3 In popular media 4 Style and influence 5 Personal life 5.1 Activism 5.2 Personal disputes 5.2.1 LL Cool J 5.2.2 Soulja Boy Tell 'Em 6 Discography 7 Filmography 7.1 Film 7.2 Television 7.3 Videos 7.4 Video games 7.5 As producer 8 Awards and nominations 8.1 Grammy Awards 8.2 MTV Video Music Awards 8.3 MTV Movie Awards 8.4 Image Awards 8.5 Adult Video News Awards 8.6 News & Documentary Emmy Award 8.7 All Def Movie Awards 9 Bibliography 10 References 10.1 Sources 11 External links 11.1 Official social media links Early life External video Ice T2.jpg video icon Ice-T - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction? (Part 1), Loudwire[3] video icon Ice-T - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction? (Part 2), Loudwire[4] video icon 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 African American from 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 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 Music Early career (1980–1981) 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) 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 headlined Public Enemy's 1988 "Bring the Noise" concert tour 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, 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] 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.[38] 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.[39][40] Acting Television and film 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".[41] 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,[42] 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". Ice-T with Christopher Meloni shooting Law & Order: SVU on Broome Street in SoHo, New York City, 2008 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,[43] Ice-T co-presented a UK-produced magazine television series on black culture, Baadasss TV.[44] 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.[45][46] 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.[47] 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 at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of Burning Down the House 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.[48] 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!"[49] 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 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.[50] Marrow also made an appearance in the 2019 video game Borderlands 3, in which he voices the character of BALEX.[51] Other ventures Podcasting 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[52] 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.[53] Ice-T released his first episode on January 7 to many accolades.[54] Reality television 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.[55][56] In popular media 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,[57] whose natural shape is revealed to be a letter T made of water.[58] Ice-T reacted on Twitter by saying "This happens with cartoonists after lots of drugs…. Fn Crazy!!"[59] 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.[60] Style and influence Ice-T at With Full Force 2018 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"[61] – is described as paving the way for the success of rap rock fusions by acts like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit.[12][61] 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:[62] Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill Eric B. & Rakim, Paid in Full N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) The Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die Dr. Dre, The Chronic Boogie Down Productions, Criminal Minded Ultramagnetic MCs, Critical Beatdown Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Run-DMC, Run-DMC Personal life 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[56] in January 2002.[63] In celebration of their impending ninth wedding anniversary, the couple renewed their wedding vows on June 4, 2011.[55] As of 2006, they owned a penthouse apartment in North Bergen, New Jersey.[64] 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.[65] In 2015, the couple had their first child together, daughter Chanel.[66][67] Ice-T has stated on numerous occasions that he is a teetotaler, and lives a straight edge lifestyle.[68][69] Ice-T is a long time practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and boxing. He is also a big fan of the UFC.[70][71] Activism 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 Fukin' 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.[72][73] Personal disputes LL Cool J 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.[74] 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".[75] In August 2012, Ice-T said that the rivalry was "never serious" and that he needed a nemesis to create "an exciting dispute".[76] Soulja Boy Tell 'Em 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".[77] 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.[78] 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".[79] Discography Main article: Ice-T discography Studio albums Rhyme Pays (1987) Power (1988) The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say (1989) O.G. Original Gangster (1991) Home Invasion (1993) Ice-T VI: Return of the Real (1996) The Seventh Deadly Sin (1999) Gangsta Rap (2006) with Body Count Body Count (1992) Born Dead (1994) Violent Demise: The Last Days (1997) Murder 4 Hire (2006) Manslaughter (2014) Bloodlust (2017) Carnivore (2020) Collaboration albums Breaking and Entering with The Radio Crew (1983) Rhyme Syndicate Comin' Through with Rhyme $yndicate (1988) Pimp to Eat with Analog Brothers (2000) Repossession with SMG (2004) Urban Legends with Black Ice (2008) The Foundation Album (Legends Recording Group) with various artists (2019) Uncut with Afrika Islam (2021) Filmography Film 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 Fck 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[80] 2020 Equal Standard Croft [81] Television 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 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[82] 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 Videos 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 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[83] As producer 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 Sources:[84][85] Grammy Awards 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 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 Year Nominated work Award Result 1992 New Jack City Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated Image Awards 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 Year Nominated work Award Result 2004 "Pimpin' 101 " Best Non-Sex Performance - Film or Video Nominated News & Documentary Emmy Award 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 Year Nominated work Award Result 2016 Surviving the Game Best Black Survivor in a Movie Nominated Bibliography The Ice Opinion: Who Gives a Fuk?, with Heidi Siegmund (1994)[86] Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption – from South Central to Hollywood (2011)[87] Kings of Vice (2011)[88] Mirror Image (2013)[89]

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