Artist: Ice T
Genre(s):
Other
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Gang Culture
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Greatest Hits: The Evidence
Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
7Th Deadly Sin
Year: 1999
Tracks: 21
Vi: Return Of The Real
Year: 1996
Tracks: 21
Home Invasion
Year: 1993
Tracks: 19
O.G. Original Gangster
Year: 1991
Tracks: 24
O.G. Original Gangsta
Year: 1991
Tracks: 24
The Iceberg / Freedom Of Speech...Just Watch What You Say
Year: 1989
Tracks: 13
Power
Year: 1988
Tracks: 13
Rhyme Pays
Year: 1987
Tracks: 13
Ice-T (born Tracy Morrow) has proved to be one of hip-hop's most vocalize and reasoning stars, as considerably as one of its well-nigh frustrating. At his charles Herbert Best, the rapper has written some of the c. H. Best portraits of ghetto life and gangsters, as well as some of the topper social comment hip-hop has produced. Just as oftentimes, he can slip into sexism and gratuitous force, and even then his rhymes are ingenious and bitter. Ice-T's best recordings have e'er been made in alignment with strong collaborators, whether it's the Bomb Squad or Jello Biafra. With his euphony, Ice-T has made a conscious effort to gain the immense audience of white male adolescents, as his shop at excursions with his sonorous metal band Body Count show. All the piece, he has withstood a unceasing battery of unfavorable judgment and contention to become a respected figure not only in the euphony press, simply the mainstream media as well.
Although he was one of the leading figures of Californian rap in the '80s, Ice-T was natural in Newark, NJ. When he was a child, he stirred from his native Newark to California after his parents died in an automobile chance event. While he was in heights school, he became possessed with rap piece he went to Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles. Ice-T took his name from Iceberg Slim, a pandar world Health Organization wrote novels and poetry. Ice-T used to con lines of Iceberg Slim's poetry, reciting them for friends and classmates. After he left wing high shoal, he recorded several undistinguished 12" singles in the former '80s. He also appeared in the low-budget hip-hop films Rappin', Breakin', and Breakin' II: Electric Boogaloo as he was nerve-wracking to build a life history.
Ice-T eventually landed a major-label record dispense with Sire Records in 1987, releasing his debut album, Rhyme Pays. On the record, he is supported by DJ Aladdin and producer Afrika Islam, wHO helped create the rolling, spare beats and samples that provided a backdrop for the rapper's charismatic rhymes, which were principally party-oriented; the book combat injury up release gold. That same year, he recorded the paper song for Dennis Hopper's Colours, a cinema nearly inner city lifetime in Los Angeles. The call -- also called "Colours" -- was stronger, both lyrically and musically, with more knifelike lyrics, than anything he had previously released. Ice-T formed his have track record label, Rhyme Syndicate (which was distributed through Sire/Warner) in 1988, and released Power. Ability was a more assured and impressive record, earning him firm reviews and his second gold record. Released in 1989, The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say accomplished him as a true hip-hop hotshot by matching first-class harsh euphony with ferocious, well-informed narratives, and political commentaries, especially about rap censoring.
Deuce old age later, Ice-T began an playing calling, star in the updated blaxploitation photographic film Young Jack City; he also recorded "Unexampled Jack Hustler" for the film. "New Jack Hustler" became one of the centerpieces of 1991's O.G.: Original Gangster, which became his to the highest degree successful album to escort. O.G. as well featured a alloy track called "Soundbox Count" recorded with Ice-T's band of the like refer. Ice-T took the band out on tour that summer, as he performed on the first-class honours degree Lollapalooza circuit. The circuit pitch increased his appeal with both alternate music fans and bourgeoisie teenagers. The following year, the rapper decided to released an entire record album with the dance band, too called Soundbox Count.
Body Count proven to be a major turning head in Ice-T's life history. On the footing of the track "Collar Killer" -- where he american ginseng from the stand of a law manslayer -- the record ignited a national arguing; it was protested by the NRA and police force militant groups. Time Warner Records ab initio supported Ice-T, in time they refused to release his unexampled rap record album, Home base Invasion, on the groundwork of the record cover. Ice-T and the label parted ways by the end of the year. Plate Invasion was released on Priority Records in the spring of 1993 to tepid reviews and gross sales. Somewhere along the way, Ice-T had begun to lose to the highest degree of his original rap music audience; now he appealed mainly to suburban white teens. In 1994, he wrote a book and released the second Body Count album, Born Dead, which failed to arouse up the same disceptation as the first record -- so, it failed to benefit much attention of any sort. Nevertheless, Body Count was successful in clubs and Ice-T continued to circuit with the set.
In the summer of 1996, Ice-T released his first rap album since 1993, Give back of the Real. The album was greeted by motley reviews and it failed to alive up to commercial expectations. 7th Deadly Sin followed in 1999. Ice-T then returned to playing, pickings a role on NBC's Law & Order : Special Victims Unit playing, ironically, a police officer.
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