Ice-T Biography

Ice-T not only invented gangster rap he has lived it. Ice-T is the original embodiment of LA hip-hop. Through his music his book The Ice Opinion and his lecture tours of America's prisons high schools and colleges (including Harvard Berkeley and Stanford) Ice-T has become an influential spokesman for America's youth regardless of color. He has been the keynote speaker at a number of Internet conventions including the New York Music & Internet Expo Rotterdam Film Festival and Canadian Music Week.
Born in New Jersey Ice-T learned the art of survival quickly. An only child whose parents died when he was very young he became involved in Los Angeles gangs before spending four years in the army. His first break came when the producers of the film Breakin' asked him to rap in the movie. He went on to become rap music's original gangster writing songs Six in the Mornin and New Jack Hustler.
Ice-T formed Rhyme Syndicate Records in 1989 and released a string of groundbreaking West Coast rap records. He subsequently formed the thrash metal band Body Count with close high school friend and guitarist Ernie C. Body Count's 1991 self-titled debut contained the controversial single Cop Killer. Body Count was the most critically acclaimed act on the highly successful 1991 Lollapalooza tour and continued to tour worldwide. Ice-T has received a Grammy Award and was also voted Best Male Rapper in Rolling Stone's 1992 Readers' Poll.

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