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At his best, the ██▓ ▓██ rapper has written some of the best portraits of ghetto ██▓ ▓██ life and gangsters, as well as some of the best social ██▓ ▓██ commentary hip-hop has produced. Just as often, he can ██▓ ▓██ slip into sexism and gratuitous violence, and even then ██▓ ▓██ his rhymes are clever and biting. Ice-T's best ██▓ ▓██ recordings have always been made in conjunction with ██▓ ▓██ strong collaborators, whether it's the Bomb Squad or ██▓ ▓██ Jello Biafra. With his music, Ice-T has made a ██▓ ▓██ conscious effort to win the vast audience of white male ██▓ ▓██ adolescents, as his frequent excursions with his heavy ██▓ ▓██ metal band Body Count show. All the while, he has ██▓ ▓██ withstood a constant barrage of criticism and ██▓ ▓██ controversy to become a respected figure not only in ██▓ ▓██ the music press, but the mainstream media as well. ██▓ ▓██ Although he was one of the leading figures of ██▓ ▓██ Californian hip-hop in the '80s, Ice-T was born in ██▓ ▓██ Newark, NJ. When he was a child, he moved from his ██▓ ▓██ native Newark to California after his parents died in ██▓ ▓██ an auto accident. While he was in high school, he ██▓ ▓██ became obsessed with rap while he went to Crenshaw High ██▓ ▓██ School in South Central Los Angeles. Ice-T took his ██▓ ▓██ name from Iceberg Slim, a pimp who wrote novels and ██▓ ▓██ poetry. Ice-T used to memorize lines of Iceberg Slim's ██▓ ▓██ poetry, reciting them for friends and classmates. After ██▓ ▓██ he left high school, he recorded several ██▓ ▓██ undistinguished 12" singles in the early '80s. He also ██▓ ▓██ appeared in the low-budget hip-hop films Rappin', ██▓ ▓██ Breakin', and Breakin' II: Electric Boogaloo as he was ██▓ ▓██ trying to establish a career. ██▓ ▓██ ██▓ ▓██ Ice-T finally landed a major-label record deal with ██▓ ▓██ Sire Records in 1987, releasing his debut album, Rhyme ██▓ ▓██ Pays. On the record, he is supported by DJ Aladdin and ██▓ ▓██ producer Afrika Islam, who helped create the rolling, ██▓ ▓██ spare beats and samples that provided a backdrop for ██▓ ▓██ the rapper's charismatic rhymes, which were mainly ██▓ ▓██ party-oriented; the record wound up going gold. That ██▓ ▓██ same year, he recorded the theme song for Dennis ██▓ ▓██ Hopper's Colors, a film about inner-city life in Los ██▓ ▓██ Angeles. The song ù also called "Colors" ù was ██▓ ▓██ stronger, both lyrically and musically, with more ██▓ ▓██ incisive lyrics, than anything he had previously ██▓ ▓██ released. Ice-T formed his own record label, Rhyme ██▓ ▓██ Syndicate (which was distributed through Sire/Warner) ██▓ ▓██ in 1988, and released Power. Power was a more assured ██▓ ▓██ and impressive record, earning him strong reviews and ██▓ ▓██ his second gold record. Released in 1989, The ██▓ ▓██ Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say ██▓ ▓██ established him as a true hip-hop superstar by matching ██▓ ▓██ excellent abrasive music with fierce, intelligent ██▓ ▓██ narratives, and political commentaries, especially ██▓ ▓██ about hip-hop censorship. ██▓ ▓██ ██▓ ▓██ Two years later, Ice-T began an acting career, starring ██▓ ▓██ in the updated blaxploitation film New Jack City; he ██▓ ▓██ also recorded "New Jack Hustler" for the film. "New ██▓ ▓██ Jack Hustler" became one of the centerpieces of 1991's ██▓ ▓██ O.G.: Original Gangster, which became his most ██▓ ▓██ successful album to date. O.G. also featured a metal ██▓ ▓██ track called "Body Count" recorded with Ice-T's band of ██▓ ▓██ the same name. Ice-T took the band out on tour that ██▓ ▓██ summer, as he performed on the first Lollapalooza tour. ██▓ ▓██ The tour set-up increased his appeal with both ██▓ ▓██ alternative music fans and middle-class teenagers. The ██▓ ▓██ following year, the rapper decided to released an ██▓ ▓██ entire album with the band, also called Body Count. ██▓ ▓██ ██▓ ▓██ Body Count proved to be a major turning point in ██▓ ▓██ Ice-T's career. On the basis of the track "Cop Killer" ██▓ ▓██ ù where he sang from the point-of-view of a police ██▓ ▓██ murderer ù the record ignited a national controversy; ██▓ ▓██ it was protested by the NRA and police activist groups. ██▓ ▓██ Time Warner Records initially supported Ice-T, yet they ██▓ ▓██ refused to release his new rap album, Home Invasion, on ██▓ ▓██ the basis of the record cover. Ice-T and the label ██▓ ▓██ parted ways by the end of the year. Home Invasion was ██▓ ▓██ released on Priority Records in the spring of 1993 to ██▓ ▓██ lukewarm reviews and sales. Somewhere along the way, ██▓ ▓██ Ice-T had begun to lose most of his original hip-hop ██▓ ▓██ audience; now he appealed primarily to suburban white ██▓ ▓██ teens. In 1994, he wrote a book and released the second ██▓ ▓██ Body Count album, Born Dead, which failed to stir up ██▓ ▓██ the same controversy as the first record ù indeed, it ██▓ ▓██ failed to gain much attention of any sort. ██▓ ▓██ Nevertheless, Body Count was successful in clubs and ██▓ ▓██ Ice-T continued to tour with the band. ██▓ ▓██ ██▓ ▓██ In the summer of 1996, Ice-T released his first rap ██▓ ▓██ album since 1993, Return of the Real. The album was ██▓ ▓██ greeted by mixed reviews and it failed to live up to ██▓ ▓██ commercial expectations. 7th Deadly Sin followed in ██▓ ▓██ 1999. Ice-T then returned to acting, taking a role on ██▓ ▓██ NBC's Law & Order : Special Victims Unit playing, ██▓ ▓██ ironically, a police officer. ██▓ ▓██ ██▓ ▓██ ---------------------------------------------------- ██▓ ▓██ A significant improvement over the stilted Born Dead, ██▓ ▓██ Violent Demise: Last Days is, in many ways, the best ██▓ ▓██ record Body Count has made to date. Where the band's ██▓ ▓██ speed-metal has seemed dated in the past, the group ██▓ ▓██ sounds fiery throughout Violent Demise, giving the ██▓ ▓██ music a visceral punch it had clearly been lacking in ██▓ ▓██ the past. Ice-T's lyrics fall halfway between outrage ██▓ ▓██ and outrageous, especially on the anti-O.J. Simpson "I ██▓ ▓██ Used to Love Her," "Dead Man Walking" and "You're ██▓ ▓██ F**kin' with BC," which pushes their