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Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958 in Newark, New Jersey), better known as Ice-T or even Ice T, is an American rapper, singer, actor, and previous pimp. Ice has got the super diverse career as a musician - from either existence widely believed to own created west-coast Mobster rap to pioneering Intercrossed metallic rap...
Biography
Ice-T was innate around Newark, New Jersey. His parents died once he was immature & he was orphaned to Los Angeles. There he uncovered the passion witharound music however became immersed in South LA gang life and whores. He enlisted in the U.S. Army.
Music
Ice-T’s foremost music occurred around 1984 while a producers of “Breakin’� asked him to rap in the film. He went in to get the Grammy Award-winning performer, whose outspoken hip-hop music has earned him international plaudits & ill fame.
Ice-T began retired by having more West Coast rap pioneers like Kid Frost and Egyptian Lover with Electro recordings. When his style changed thus did a rap movement. He went in to function by having Afrika Islam, with 1987's Rhyme Pays, & 1988's Power. He formed Rhyme Syndicate Records inside 1989, & freed the string of innovational records. Long prior to a rap-rock synergism was major-label Ice-T played a foremost Lollapalooza with acts like Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails, then opened shows for Metallica and Guns N' Roses.
Within 1991, Ice-T's 4th album, "Original Gangster", was freed including a theme song from either a motion picture New Jack City. As well inside 1991, Ice’s metallic band System Count freed a debut self-titled album "Cop Killer" which led to disceptation & a introduction of the Parental Advisory Sticker, for retail sold recorded music.Virgin Records released his next album "Home Invasion" (1993) that featured the fresh female rapper known as Grip and Ice T's longtime DJ Evil E as a rapper himself. His seventh solo album, Ice-T "VI - Return of the Real", was freed by having a glossy, west coast beat, including the singles 'Pimp Anthem' & a slow rifling 'I personally Must Could have'. Ice-T joined a 1999 summertime Warped Tour and joined the ranks of ska and punk bands like Royal Crown Revue & Blink 182. A number 1 lone from either his fresh album "7th Deadly Sin" (1999), was freed exclusivly in MP3.com, "Don't Hate the Playa." The album was one one of the first to be released through the Internet before going retail through his own Coroner Records, and Atomic Pop distribution.
Actor
Ice-T has continued sustaining his feature-film career likewise, with appeared within New Jack City (opposite Wesley Snipes), Ricochet (with Denzel Washington), Johnny Mnemonic (with Keanu Reeves), and Walter Hill’s Trespass.
Outwardly out from either wall street, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit marks the third project on which Ice-T has worked with executive producer Dick Wolf. He antecedently starred within Wolf’s 1997-98 series “Players� (which he helped develop), a NBC movie “Exiled: A Law & Order Movie� and guest-starred several times on series New York Undercover. He besides processed one for the motion picture Colors that hit the stock and index charts.
Discography
Albums
Rhyme Pays (Sire/Warner, 1987)
Power (Sire/Warner, 1988)
The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say (Sire/Warner, 1989)
OG: Original Gangster (Sire/Warner, 1991)
Home Invasion (Priority, 1993)
VI - Return of the Real (Priority, 1996)
The Seventh Deadly Sin (Coroner, 1999)
Singles
"The Coldest Rap" (1982)
"Body Rock" (1984)
"Killers" (1984)
"Ya Don't Quit" (1985)
"Dog N The Wax" (1986)
"6 In The Mornin'" (1986)
"Colors" (1988)
"I'm Your Pusher" (1988)
"High Rollers" (1989)
"You Played Yourself" (1989)
"Lethal Weapon" (1989)
"Dick Tracy" (1990)
"Superfly 1990" (1990) performed by Curtis Mayfield and Ice-T
"New Jack Hustler" (1991)
"Ricochet" (1991)
"Trespass" (1992) performed by Ice-T & Ice Cube
"That's How I'm Livin'"/"99 Problems" (1993)
"Gotta Lotta Love" (1994)
"I Must Stand" (1996)
"Don't Hate the Player" (1999)
"Check your Game" (1999)
"Eye of the Storm" (1999)
"Money, Power, Women" (2000)
Compilations and Bootlegs
Ice-T & King Tee Having a T Party (Rams Horn 1991)
A Classic Collection (Excello/Rhino 1993)
Cold when Ever (Blue Dolphin/Hitman/Caroline 1996)
Greatest Hits: A Grounds to believe (Coroner/Warner 2000)
A Early Years (2002)
Gang Culture (Snapper, 2004) (Ice-T sleep in Montreux, Switzerland, 1995) (bootleg recording, released & distributed by the Dutch label known as Disky & by Snapper/Charly in the UK)
with Body Count
System Count (1992)
Natural Dead (1994)
Violent Dying: A Last judgement (1997)
Ice T presents the West Coast Rydaz
What Really Goez In (1998)
Analog Brothers
"Pimp to Eat" (2000)
Ice T Presents
Pimpin 101 - A Soundtrack (2003)
Westside (2004)
with SMG (Sex Money and Gunz)
Repossession (2004)
Videography
A Iceberg Streaming video (1989)
O.G.: A Original Mobster Videos (1991)
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