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Ice T is a rap artist and writer, actor, and producer whose real name is Tracy Lauren Marrow. Ice T\u2019s first album, Rhyme Pays, was the first album of hip hop music to have had to have a sticker on its cover warning of explicit content. Ice T\u2019s second album, Power, was even more successful and went platinum.<\/p>\n
Ice T is a co founder of Body Count, a heavy metal group, whose song \u201cCop Killer\u201d received a great deal of controversy when it was first released in 1992.<\/p>\n
Ice T\u2019s most significant acting work includes Detective Scotty Appleton from the film New Jack City and another cop, Odafin Tutuola on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Ice T also starred in a reality show for 3 years on the E! Network called Ice Loves Coco.<\/p>\n
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Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Moneybagg Yo Net Worth<\/a><\/p>\n Image Credit: Milan Risky\/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n Ice T met a record producer from Saturn Records named Willie Strong in 1982. By the next year, Willie Strong had recorded Ice T\u2019s first song, which was called both \u201cCold Wind Madness\u201d and \u201cThe Coldest Rap\u201d. It became a big underground hit. Later that year, \u201cBody Rock\u201d rose to popularity across the club scene.<\/p>\n 1984 saw Ice T releasing \u201cKillers\u201d, a political rap, and then appearing on DJ Chris \u201cThe Glove\u201d Taylor\u2019s \u201cReckless\u201d and then its sequel, \u201cReckless Rivalry (Combat)\u201d. Ice T\u2019s next songs were \u201cYa Don\u2019t Quit\u201d, followed by \u201cDog\u2019n the Wax (Ya Don\u2019t Quit-Part II)\u201d.<\/p>\n After hearing and loving Schoolly D\u2019s \u201cP.S.K. What Does It Mean?\u201d, Ice T took a shot at emulating him with a track called \u201c6 in the Mornin\u2019.\u201d This was Ice T\u2019s first, but not only, foray into gangsta rap.<\/p>\n Ice T signed up for a deal with Sire Records, president of the label comparing Ice T\u2019s musical voice and talent to that of Bob Dylan. In 1987, Ice T put out his first album, Rhyme Pays. The RIAA certified it gold.<\/p>\n In 1988, Ice T dropped Power, his second album but his first under his own label, Rhyme Syndicate. It got much stronger reviews than his first. In 1989, he had a third album: The Iceberg\/Freedom of Speech\u2026Just Watch What You Say! That year, he also rapped on Hugh Harris\u2019 \u201cAlice\u201d.<\/p>\n His fourth album, O.G. Original Gangster, came out in 1991, and is considered to this day to be one of the definitive gangsta rap albums ever recorded. One of the songs was called \u201cBody Count\u201d and also introduced his own heavy metal band of the same name.<\/p>\n By the next year, Body Count had put out their own album. One song on the album, \u201cCop Killer\u201d, gained a great deal of controversy due to its subject matter of murdering cops, despite the fact that it was specifically written from the point of view of a protagonist getting revenge on cops who had been racist and brutal towards him.<\/p>\n As a result of the controversy, police advocacy groups, the National Rifle Association, and various politicians rose up into a moral panic, which led to Time Warner Music refusing to put out his next album, which was called Home Invasion. Ice T himself spoke out about he felt his race was the sole factor in the controversy.<\/p>\n Shortly afterwards, Ice T left Sire Records and Warner Bros Records, set up Rhyme Syndicate again, and signed a distribution deal with Priority Records, which put out Home Invasion in 1993. It hit ninth place on Billboard\u2019s Top R&B Hip Hop Albums chart and fourteenth on the 200.<\/p>\n Singles included the extremely well known \u201c99 Problems\u201d, \u201cI Ain\u2019t New Ta This\u201d, and \u201cGotta Lotta Love\u201d. Ice T also did a bunch of collaborations with a number of different heavy metal bands, including Slayer and Black Sabbath.<\/p>\n Additionally, he put out 2 heavy metal albums himself: 1996\u2019s VI \u2013 Return of the Real and 1999\u2019s The Seventh Deadly Sin.<\/p>\n In 2006, Ice T put out his first album in the rap genre in 7 years, called simply Gangsta Rap. Many retailers were uncomfortable with stocking it because of its sexually graphic cover of him naked in bed with his wife. The reviews of the album itself were mixed at best.<\/p>\n Ice T is also a film actor. In 1991, he did his first more serious acting role as a cop named Scotty Appleton in the film thriller New Jack City. In 1991, he played a gang leader named Odessa in Ricochet, starring opposite John Lithgow and Denzel Washington. In 1992, he was in Trespass.<\/p>\n That same year, he got a part as a drug dealer on the show New York Undercover. In 1996, the NAACP gave him an Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.<\/p>\n The next year, Ice T helped co create a show called Players that didn\u2019t last long. He then played a pimp called Seymour Stockton in 1998\u2019s Exiled: A Law & Order Movie, followed by becoming a regular cast member on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2000.<\/p>\n The role he plays on the show is a cop named Odafin Tutuola, or Fin for short. In 2002, he got a second NAACP Image Award, for the same category as before thanks to this role.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Chamillionaire Net Worth<\/a><\/p>\n Ice T was born as Tracy Lauren Marrow on the sixteenth of February in the year 1958 in Newark, New Jersey, United States of America. His parents were Solomon Marrow and Alice Marrow.<\/p>\n At a young age, Ice T moved with his family to Summit, New Jersey, an upscale and largely white area, where he only escaped being treated badly by the white kids due to the fact that he was so light skinned, they didn\u2019t realize he was Black.<\/p>\n When Ice T was only in the 3rd grade, his mom tragically had a heart attack and died. His dad after that point raised him for 4 years until, when Ice T reached 13, he also developed a heart attack, and also died from it, leaving Ice T an orphan.<\/p>\n Ice T was sent to live with one aunt and then another in Los Angeles, California in an area populated by upper middle class Black people called View Park-Windsor Hills. Ice T shared a bedroom with his cousin, Earl, who was a big fan of heavy metal music, and got Ice T into it as well.<\/p>\n As a teenager, Ice T at first went to a mostly white high school, Palms Junior High, before transferring to a mostly Black school, Crenshaw High School. Unlike most of his friends, Ice T didn\u2019t drink, smoke, or take drugs. His school had a lot of gang activity, but Ice T never joined one.<\/p>\n Ice T got into reading the books of an author called Iceberg Slim, who he became so obsessed with, he\u2019d memorize them and recite lines to them, which is how he got his nickname and later stage name.<\/p>\n In high school, Ice T began singing when he joined a school group called The Precious Few of Crenshaw High. When he turned 17, Ice T began to get Social Security from the government due to his dad\u2019s death. He used the money he received to rent his own apartment. For extra money, he stole car stereos and sold weed.<\/p>\n Despite this, he still wasn\u2019t earning enough money to support himself and his girlfriend, who was pregnant at the time. Shortly after their daughter\u2019s birth in October of 1977, Ice T enlisted in the army. During his time there, he got into hip hop, particularly \u201cRapper\u2019s Delight\u201d by Sugarhill Gang.<\/p>\n While Ice T found himself stationed in Hawaii, Ice T befriended a pimp called Mac who taught him his skills. While there, Ice T was also able to affordable procure stereo equipment, such as a turntable and mixer. From that point, he was able to learn how to use the turntables and how to rap.<\/p>\n In 1979, after 2 years and 2 months, Ice T got an early honorable discharge due to being a single dad. From that point on, he had a short lived career as a bank robber, something he only admitted to publicly once his statue of limitations had run out.<\/p>\n Ice T began to DJ and rap at parties but ended up getting praised more for his rap, so he ended up shifting towards that as a career. He was also involved in armed robberies at the time, and when his friends went to prison for it, they took the blame for him, thus sparing him prison time, which he remains grateful for.<\/p>\n Shortly afterwards, he got in a car accident but had to be a John Doe in the hospital because he didn\u2019t keep ID on him in case he ever got caught for criminal acts. As a result of this experience, he chose to abandon this lifestyle all together and fully focus on rap as a career.<\/p>\n Two weeks after getting out of the hospital, Ice T won an open mic contest.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Ice Cube Net Worth<\/a><\/p>\n Image Credit: Debby Wong\/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n Ice T had a daughter called LaTesha Marrow with Adrienne, his girlfriend in high school, in 1976, and they raised her together while continuing to go to high school.<\/p>\n In 1984, he met his next girlfriend Darlene Ortiz, while he was filming his first movie role in Breakin\u2019 In. They had a son together in late 1991 named Tracy Marrow Jr.<\/p>\n In 2002, Ice T got married to Nicole Austin, a swimsuit model. In 2015, they had their first kid, Chanel.<\/p>\n Ice T has a large social media following, albeit on only two of the major platforms. Ice T uses his social media accounts to connect with his fanbase. This in turn also helps Ice T net worth.<\/p>\n Ice T does not have an official public verified Facebook account. Should this situation change and Ice T ever choose to sign up for one, we will be sure to update this page with that information. After all, our goal is to keep our readers informed of all of the latest news about Ice T net worth, career, and life.<\/p>\n Ice T has an official public verified Twitter account. Ice T\u2019s Twitter account handle is @FINALLEVEL, all caps. Due to the fact that Twitter\u2019s system is not case sensitive, however, it can be entered in all lower case in order to locate it as well.<\/p>\n On this popular social media platform, Ice T has 1.8 million followers as of the present time. Ice T is himself currently following 1750 accounts in return. Ice T uses his Twitter account to tweet his thoughts and observations and share career updates, which helps connect him with his fans. This in turn helps boost Ice T net worth.<\/p>\n Ice T has an official public verified Instagram account. Ice T\u2019s Instagram account handle is simply @icet, all lower case letters. On this popular social media platform, Ice T currently has approximately one million followers as of the present time. Ice T is himself following 600 accounts in return currently.<\/p>\n Ice T uses his Instagram account to share photos of himself, memes, and career updates, which helps connect him with his fans. This in turn helps Ice T net worth continue to grow.<\/p>\n Ice T does not have an official public verified LinkedIn account. Should this situation change and Ice T ever choose to sign up for one, we will be sure to update this page with that information. After all, our goal is to keep our readers informed of all of the latest news about Ice T net worth, career, and life.<\/p>\n Ice T does not have an official public verified TikTok account. Should this situation change and Ice T ever choose to sign up for one, we will be sure to update this page with that information. After all, our goal is to keep our readers informed of all of the latest news about Ice T net worth, career, and life.<\/p>\n
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