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Ice-T
said
I had an aunt that used to say, “You keep using the same recipe, You’re gonna keep baking the same cake. “You’ve gotta change the ingredients if you want a different outcome.
— Twitter, (1 January 2021)
Ice-T
American rapper and actor (born 1958)
- Fame61.5
- Momentum1.4
- United States rank#229
Source-basedStable
- Fame61.5
- Momentum1.4
- United States rank#229
- Musicians rank#187
- Wikipedia126.8K
Born 1958 · age 68United States
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Updated 2026-06-09
He threaded gangsta rap's hardest edge with metal's fury, then settled into two decades as a TV cop — the same institution he once rapped about killing.
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Tracy Lauren Marrow came up as an underground rapper in the 1980s, signed to Sire Records in 1987, and released Rhyme Pays. Power followed in 1988, his only platinum record, and he founded Rhyme $yndicate Records the same year. Three more gold albums arrived between 1989 and 1993, including O.G. Original Gangster, which introduced the heavy metal band Body Count he'd co-founded in 1990. Body Count's self-titled 1992 debut ignited a firestorm over "Cop Killer," a track about shooting police; Ice-T asked out of his Warner Bros. deal and released Home Invasion through Priority Records. He'd alrea…
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Ice-T
said
Don’t listen to the people on the sidelines. Pay attention to the actual players.
— Twitter, (16 June 2020)
Ice-T
said
When you’re not fed with a silver spoon you learn to lick it off a knife.
— Twitter, (30 March 2020)
Ice-T
said
It's easy to make people think you’re a gangster. It’s hard to convince the feds you’re not.
— Twitter, (20 September 2019)
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- Urban Legends2010
- Gangsta Rap2006
- 7th Deadly Sin1999
- VI: Return of the Real1996
- Home Invasion1993
- O.G. Original Gangster1991
- The Iceberg / Freedom of Speech… Just Watch What You Say1989
- Power1988
- Rhyme Pays1987
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Stable61.5
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Momentum1.4
Historical28.4
Source confidence85.0
Completeness90.0
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