Ice-T

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Ice-T (2011)

Ice-T (born February 16, 1958 in Newark , New Jersey ; actually Tracy Lauren Marrow ) is an American musician and actor .

Life

Musical career

Ice-T (2018)

Ice-T was born in Newark, but grew up in Los Angeles . His career began with extra roles in the series Fame - Der Weg zum Ruhm (1983) and the two breakdance films Breakin ' and Breakin 2 - Electric Boogaloo (both 1984). Spurred on by his role as MC , he tried his hand at rapper. He borrowed his name from that of his favorite author Iceberg Slim , from whose work he was strongly influenced. His themes reflect life on the street, in his neighborhood and in gangs . He was one of the first rappers to glorify the pimp lifestyle . He is also considered a pioneer of gangsta rap .

Despite a few singles in the years 1983–1986, his debut album Rhyme Pays was not released until 1987. It was produced by Afrika Islam . It sold around 300,000 times at the time. Ice-T's big breakthrough came with the follow-up album Power and the hit single I'm Your Pusher . Again and again he spoke out on political issues.

In 1989 he founded the heavy metal - crossover band Body Count . The band attracted attention mainly through the song Cop Killer . At the time of the scandal surrounding the use of force by police officers against Rodney King and the subsequent riot in Los Angeles , the song sparked some controversy. Warner Brothers did n't stand up to public pressure in preparation for Ice-T's next album, Home Invasion . They released Ice-T from his contract, and the album was defused by two "softer" tracks ( Cop Killer was replaced by Freedom of Speech ). This enabled him to build his own record label, Rhyme Syndicate .

Ice-T is known for working with other artists who are not hip-hop artists. He recorded a song with Slayer for the soundtrack to the film Judgment Night . With Jello Biafra he released the song Freedom of Speech . Together with Six feet Under , Ice-T recorded a song called One Bullet Left . Furthermore, he can be heard on the album The truth hurts by the band Pro-Pain in the song Put the lights out and together with Motörhead on the single Born to Raise Hell (extraction of the Airheads soundtrack). He contributed the song Police Story to the compilation Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three , a benefit record for the benefit of the West Memphis Three , which was put together by the former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins . He also released a cover version of the Prince song Head from his album Dirty Mind . Ice-T also produced the soundtrack for the third-person shooter Gears of War 3 , released in April 2011 . He also worked with other rappers, such as Kool Keith under the name Analog Brothers and with Smoothe the Hustler and Trigger the Gambler under the name SMG .

Acting career

Ice-T (2009)

He pushed his film career from 1991. Since then he has made a number of feature films. In quick succession he shot New Jack City , Ricochet - Der Aufprall und Trespass . Since then he has been in front of the camera regularly without his films being seen more often in German-speaking countries. He mainly plays cops or gangsters. From 1995 he also took on roles in television series. He made several guest appearances in New York Undercover and VIP - Die Bodyguards before he switched to the regular cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2000 . In 1998 he had already taken on a role in the law & order film Exiled .

In 2000, Ice-T voiced the character Kain in the PC game Sanity - Aikens Artifact from Monolith Productions . He also composed the title song for the game, which was included in the scope of delivery. He also lent his voice in 2005 to the rapper "Madd Dogg" from the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas .

Private life

He is the son of Solomon Marrow, an African American, and Alice Marrow, a light-skinned Creole . Because of the widespread racism , he had to struggle with exclusion and discrimination since childhood , a circumstance that significantly shaped his later career as a musician.

Since January 2002 he has been married to the American actress and erotic model Nicole Austin alias "Coco". On November 28, 2015, the two parents had a daughter.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1987	Rhyme Pays	-	-	-	-	US93 gold (27 weeks)US	First published: July 28, 1987 Sales: + 500,000
1988	power	-	-	-	-	US35 platinum (33 weeks)US	First published: September 13, 1988 Sales: + 1,050,000
1989	The Iceberg / Freedom of Speech ... Just Watch What You Say!	-	-	-	UK42 (2 weeks) UK	US37 gold (28 weeks)US	First published: October 10, 1989 Sales: + 550,000
1991	OG original gangster	-	-	CH30 (1 week) CH	UK38 silver (4 weeks)UK	US15th gold (33 weeks)US	First published: May 14, 1991 Sales: +610,000
1993	Home invasion	DE20 (15 weeks) DE	AT30 (5 weeks) AT	CH24 (3 weeks) CH	UK15th gold (7 weeks)UK	US14th gold (11 weeks)US	First published: March 23, 1993 Sales: + 600,000
1996	Ice-T VI: Return of the Real	DE40 (10 weeks) DE	AT40 (1 week) AT	CH19 (7 weeks) CH	UK26 (3 weeks) UK	US89 (4 weeks) US	First published: June 4, 1996
1999	The Seventh Deadly Sin	-	-	-	-	-	First published: September 12, 1999
2006	Gangsta rap	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 31, 2006

Compilations

• 1993: The Classic Collection
• 1996: Cold as Ever
• 1997: The Early Years
• 2000: Greatest Hits: The Evidence
• 2002: Westside
• 2014: Greatest Hits

Live albums

• 2004: Gang Culture

Video albums

• 1989: The Iceberg Video (US:gold)
• 1991: OG Original Gangster

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1988	Colors Colors Soundtrack	-	-	-	-	US70 (7 weeks) US
	High Rollers Power	-	-	-	UK63 (2 weeks) UK	-
1989	Lethal Weapon The Iceberg	-	-	-	UK98 (1 week) UK	-
1990	You Played Yourself The Iceberg	-	-	-	UK64 (2 weeks) UK	-
	Superfly 1990 The Return of Superfly Soundtrack	-	-	CH23 (4 weeks) CH	UK48 (3 weeks) UK	-	Ice-T and Curtis Mayfield
1991	New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme) New Jack City Soundtrack	-	-	-	-	US67 (8 weeks) US
1993	I Ain't New Ta This Home Invasion	-	-	-	UK62 (2 weeks) UK	-
	That's How I'm Livin ' Home Invasion	-	-	-	UK21 (6 weeks) UK	-
1994	Gotta Lotta Love Home Invasion	-	-	-	UK24 (4 weeks) UK	-
	Born to Raise Hell Airheads soundtrack	-	-	-	UK47 (2 weeks) UK	-	Motörhead feat. Ice-T and Whitfield Crane
1996	I Must Stand Ice-T VI: Return of the Real	-	-	CH43 (3 weeks) CH	UK23 (3 weeks) UK	-
	The Lane Ice-T VI: Return of the Real	-	-	-	UK18 (5 weeks) UK	-
2003	Beat of Life Beat of Life Vol. 2	DE12 (9 weeks) DE	AT52 (6 weeks) AT	CH100 (1 week) CH	-	-	DJ Tomekk feat. Ice-T, Sandra Nasić , Trigga Tha Gambla and Smoothe Tha Hustla

Guest appearances & collaborations

year	Performers	song	album
1984	Chris "The Glove" Taylor & David Storrs	Reckless	single
1989	Quincy Jones	Back on the block	Back on the block
1990	Curtis Mayfield & Ice-T	Superfly 1990	single
	Everlast	The rhythm	Forever Everlasting
	West Coast Rap All-Stars	We're All In the Same Gang	single
1991	Black Uhuru	Tip of the Iceberg	Iron Storm
1992	Ice Cube & Ice-T	Trespass	Trespass soundtrack
1993	Slayer	Disorder	Judgment Night Soundtrack
	2Pac	Last Wordz	Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ
1994	Motorhead	Born to Raise Hell	Airheads soundtrack
	Pro-Pain	Put the lights out	The Truth Hurts
	South Central Cartel	Gangsta team	'N Gatz We Truss
	Terminator X	Sticka	Great bathroom
1995	Black Sabbath	The illusion of power	Forbidden
	Murder Squad	No peace	SCC presents Murder Squad Nationwide
	VA	Where Ya At?	One million strong
1996	Africa Islam	Africa Jam	single
1997	DJ Aladdin	Down with Us	$ port Ya Vest In Tha West
		What Really Goes On
	Brotha Lynch Hung	Secondz a way	Loaded
	frost	Loco	When Hell A. Freezes Over
	Laylaw	Your Hustle Ain't On	The Lawhouse Experience, Volume One
	Spice 1	Recognize game	The Black Bossalini
1998	DJ Polo & Ice-T	Suzy Rose	Polo's Playhouse
	2 live crew	The Real One	The Real One
1999	Insane clown posse	Dead end	Psychopathics from Outer Space
	TWDY	shut up	Lead the way
2000	Analog Brothers		Pimp to Eat
2001	Fredro Starr	One night	Firestarr
	Six Feet Under	One bullet left	True Carnage
	guru	Underground Connections	Baldhead Slick And Da Click
	King Sun & Ice-T	Celph Titled (feat.Kool Mike Ski)	single
2002	Rollins band	Police story	Rise Above
2003	DJ Tomekk	Beat of Life	Beat of Life Vol. 2
	Xzibit , Kurupt , King T , Mac Mall & Ice-T	Get on Down	single
2004	Marc Live	Showbiz shit	Validation: Attack of the Grunge
		The Last Gangsters
	SMG		Repossession
	Triple Seis	Coast 2 Coast	Time'll tell
2006	Icepick	Real Recognitions Real	Violent Epiphany
2008	Black Ice (Black Silver & Ice-T)		Urban Legends
	E-40	Earl	The Ball Street Journal
2009	Deams	Underground	The Legacy
2012	Blokkmonsta	Double floor	Roboblokk
2014	Upon a burning body	Turn Down for What	Punk Goes Pop 6
2017	DJ Supreme	Arctic II
2019	Callejon	Porn From Spain 3	Hard money in the club

With body count

→ see: Body Count / Discography

Awards for music sales

Golden record

•  Canada
  • 1989: for the album Power
  • 1991: for the album Freedom of Speech… Just Watch What You Say!
  • 1991: for the album OG Original Gangster

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	-	3 × gold3	-	150,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	-	5 × gold5	platinum1	3,050,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	-	160,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	9 × gold9	platinum1

Filmography (selection)

• 1984: breakin '
• 1984: Electric Boogaloo (Breakin '2: Electric Boogaloo)
• 1991: New Jack City
• 1991: Ricochet - The Impact (Ricochet)
• 1992: Trespass
• 1994: Surviving the Game - Kill Him! (Surviving the Game)
• 1995: Tank Girl
• 1995: Networked - Johnny Mnemonic (Johnny Mnemonic)
• 1997: Mean Guns
• 1997: Playground of the Murderers (Below Utopia)
• 1997: Crazy Six
• 1997–1998: Players (TV series, 18 episodes)
• 1999: Stealth Fighter
• 1999: Judgment Day - Doomsday (Judgment Day)
• 2000: Shot Down (The Heist)
• 2000: Leprechaun 5: Leprechaun in the Hood
• 2000: The Replacement - White House Death Squad (The Alternate)
• since 2000: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( Law & Order: New York , TV series)
• 2001: Deadly Blaze (Ablaze)
• 2001: Gangland LA (Gangland)
• 2001: Crime is King (3000 Miles to Graceland)
• 2001: Air Rage - Terror in 30,000 Feet (Air Rage)
• 2003: Hood Rat (Tara)
• 2003: Crime Partners
• 2003: Stranded - Operation Space (Stranded)
• 2010: The Somewhat Different Cops ( The Other Guys , voice for narrator )
• 2013: Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
• 2014: Chicago PD (Season 1, Episode 6)

literature

• Ice-T / Sigmund, Heidi: The Ice Opinion. Who gives a fuck? - Droemer Knaur 1995, ISBN 3-426-60315-2 .
• Josephine Metcalf & Will Turner (Eds.): Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production. Ashgate, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4724-1835-7 .

Web links

Commons : Ice-T  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ice-T in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website (English)
• Ice-T in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ice-T in the German dubbing file
• Ice-T at Allmusic (English)
• Ice-T at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ April issue of Juice (2008) - page 102
2. ↑ Ralf Theil: Kings of HipHop: Ice-T. In: juice.de. JUICE, October 9, 2014, accessed January 9, 2017.
3. ^ Ice-T, Douglas Century: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood , One World Verlag, 2012, p. 17, ISBN 0-345-52329-6 .
4. ↑ Saskia: Surprise: Ice-T & Coco Austin's daughter is born! In: Promiflash.de. November 28, 2015, accessed November 28, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Chart sources, albums: DE AT CH UK US
6. ↑ Chart sources, singles: DE AT CH UK US