Ice T Quotes


Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.


Citations

Ice-T, and Douglas Century. Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood. Random House, 2011, p. 7.

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Ice T
Ice T
  • Born: February 16, 1958
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Rapper, Actor, Songwriter, Producer

Tracy Lauren Marrow, better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, actor, songwriter, and producer. He began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays—the second hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker (following Slick Rick's La Di Da Di). The following 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, which would go platinum. He also released several other albums that went gold.