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Ice T

Ice-T
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Ice-T in Manhattan on set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in March 2011
Born Tracy Lauren Marrow
(1958-02-16) February 16, 1958 (age 59)
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Residence Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names
  • Ice-T
  • Ice T
  • Iceberg
  • Ice Oscillator
Occupation
  • Musician
  • rapper
  • actor
  • CEO
  • record producer
  • author
Years active 1981–present (rapping)
1984–present (acting)
Spouse(s) Coco Austin (m. 2002)
Children 3
Website www.icetfinallevel.com
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External video
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Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958) 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, one of the first hip-hop albums to carry an explicit content sticker. The next 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.

He co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced in his 1991 album O.G.: Original Gangster. Body Count released its self-titled debut album in 1992. Ice-T encountered controversy over his track "Cop Killer", which was perceived to glamorize 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 Odafin Tutuola on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. On August 1, 2006 the fourth Body Count album Murder 4 Hire was released, followed by Manslaughter on June 10, 2014.


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