Ice T
Ice T
Tracy Lauren Marrow better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays, the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker. The next year, he founded the record label Rhyme $yndicate Recordsand released another album, Power...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth16 February 1958
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
I have to grow with my audience.
I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.