Ice-T felt that politicians had intentionally referred to the song 'Cop Killer' as rap to provoke negative criticism.

But where rap's core audience is presumably in the inner city, hard-core appeals mostly to suburbanites seeking more gritty thrills than they can get from Nintendo or the local mall.' ĭespite Ice-T's attempts to differentiate Body Count from his work in the hip hop genre, the press focused on the group's rap image. Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that with Body Count, Ice-T 'has recognized a kinship between his gangster raps and post-punk, hard-core rock, both of which break taboos to titillate fans. Ice-T states, 'To us that was the devil what's more scary than some gangster with a gun pointed at you?' Ice-T defined the resulting mix of heavy metal and reality-based lyrics as 'a rock album with a rap mentality.' The album's musical style is primarily described as speed metal, thrash metal and heavy metal. However, Ice-T felt that basing his lyrics in reality would be scarier than the fantasy basis in Black Sabbath's lyrics the inner artwork depicts a man with a gun pointed at the viewer's face. He teamed up with the pioneering Latino MC Kid Frost to perform 'Tears of a Mother' for the film “No Mothers Crying, No Babies Dying.”These days, Ice stars as Odafin Tutuola on the television series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, but he still returns to the studio on occasion to record hip-hop tracks.Ernie C and Ice-T conceived the album with the dark, ominous tone and Satanic lyrical themes of Black Sabbath in mind. More recently, Ice-T formed a new group called SMG (Sex, Money, and Gunz) with East Coast gangster MCs Smoothe Da Hustler and Trigga da Gambla.Ice-T has written and performed songs for many movie soundtracks including 'Big Gun' for “Tank Girl” as well as title tracks for “Colors,” “Dick Tracy,” “New Jack City,” “Ricochet,” and “Trespass” (He starred in all of them, save for “Dick Tracy” and “Colors.”). The same year also brought Ice-T's Greatest Hits: The Evidence.

1999’s 7th Deadly Sin was one of the first records to be distributed via mp3 before appearing in record stores and continued in this vein.In 2000, Ice-T teamed up with East Coast hip-hop pioneer Kool Keith from Ultramagnetic MCs to form the Analog Brothers, widely considered an artistically successful experiment.

Rhyme $yndicate/Priority/EMI Records released the album with the intended artwork intact.On 1997’s VI-Return of the Real, Ice returned to his gangsta roots.

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