Ice-T, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ice-T

American rapper, songwriter, actor, record executive, and record producer

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1958

Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States

Profession: actor, writer, musician, rapper, voice actor, television actor, film actor, podcaster

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Ice-T

  • Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American musician, rapper, songwriter, actor, record producer, and author.
  • He began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays; the second hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker after Slick Rick's La Di Da Di.
  • The following year, he founded the record label Rhyme $yndicate Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the "Rhyme $yndicate") and released another album, Power, which went on to go Platinum.
  • He also released several other albums that went Gold. He co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced on his 1991 rap album O.G.: Original Gangster, on the track titled "Body Count".
  • The band released their self-titled debut album in 1992.
  • Ice-T encountered controversy over his track "Cop Killer", the lyrics of which discussed killing police officers.
  • Ice-T asked to be released from his contract with Warner Bros.
  • Records, and his next solo album, Home Invasion, was released later in February 1993 through Priority Records.
  • Body Count's next album was released in 1994, and Ice-T released two more albums in the late-1990s.
  • Since 2000, he has portrayed NYPD Detective/Sergeant Odafin Tutuola on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

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