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Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American musician, rapper, songwriter, actor, record executive, record producer and author. 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 first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker. 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.

He co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced on his 1991 rap album O.G.: Original Gangster, on the track titled "Body Count". The band released their self-titled debut album in 1992. Ice-T encountered controversy over his track "Cop Killer", which glamorized 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/Sergeant Odafin Tutuola on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Early life

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Tracy Lauren Marrow, son of Solomon and Alice Marrow, was born in Newark, New Jersey. Solomon was African-American, and Alice was Creole. For decades, Solomon worked as a conveyor belt mechanic at the Rapistan Conveyor Company. When Marrow was a child, his family moved to upscale Summit, New Jersey. The first time race played a major part in Marrow's life was at the age of seven, when he became aware of the racism leveled by his white friends towards black children, and that he escaped similar treatment because they thought that Marrow was white due to his lighter skin. Relaying this incident to his mother, she told him, "Honey, people are stupid"; her advice and this incident taught Marrow to control the way the negativity of others affected him.

His mother died of a heart attack when he was in third grade. Solomon raised Marrow as a single father for four years, with help from a housekeeper. Marrow's first experience with illicit activity occurred after a bicycle that his father "bought" him for Christmas, was stolen. After Marrow told his father, Solomon shrugged, "Well, then, you ain't got no bike." Marrow stole parts from bicycles and assembled "three or four weird-looking, brightly painted bikes" from the parts; his father either did not notice or never acknowledged this. When Marrow was twelve years old, Solomon died of a heart attack. For many years, AllMusic.com has stated that his parents "died in an auto accident", but Ice-T has stated that it was actually he who had been in a car accident, and that was decades later.

Following his father's death, the orphaned Marrow lived with a nearby aunt briefly, then was sent to live with his other aunt and her husband in View Park-Windsor Hills, an upper middle-class Black neighborhood in South Los Angeles. While his cousin Earl was preparing to leave for college, Marrow shared a bedroom with him. Earl was a fan of rock music and listened only to the local rock radio stations; sharing a room with him sparked Marrow's interest in heavy metal music.

Gangs, criminal life, and the Army

Marrow moved to the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles when he was in the eighth grade. He attended Palms Junior High, which was predominantly made up of white students, and included black students who travelled by bus from South Central to attend. He attended Crenshaw High School, which was almost entirely made up of black students.

Marrow stood out from most of his friends because he did not drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, or use drugs. During high school, gangs began to intensify in the Los Angeles school system. Students who belonged to the Bloods and Crips gangs attended Crenshaw, and fought in the school's hallways. Marrow, while never an actual gang member, was more affiliated with the Crips, and began reading the novels of Iceberg Slim, which he memorized and recited to his friends, who enjoyed hearing the excerpts and told him, "Yo, kick some more of that by Ice, T," and the handle stuck. Marrow and other Crips wrote and performed "Crip Rhymes" .

His music career started with the band of the singing group The Precious Few of Crenshaw High School. Marrow and his group opened the show, dancing to a live band. The singers were Thomas Barnes, Ronald Robinson and Lapekas Mayfield.

In 1975, at the age of seventeen, Marrow began receiving Social Security benefits resulting from the death of his father and used the money to rent an apartment for $90 a month. He sold cannabis and stole car stereos to earn extra cash, but he was not making enough to support his pregnant girlfriend, and once his daughter was born; he joined the United States Army. Marrow served a four-year tour in the 25th Infantry Division. He was in a group that was charged with the theft of a rug.While awaiting trial, he received a $2,500 bonus check and decided to go Absence Without Leave (UA), yet he returned a month later after the rug had been returned. Marrow received an Article 15 as a consequence of his dereliction of duty.

During his spell in the Army, Marrow became interested in hip hop music. He heard The Sugar Hill Gang's newly released single "Rapper's Delight," which inspired him to perform his own raps over the instrumentals of this and other early hip-hop records. The music, however, did not fit his lyrics or form of delivery.

When he was stationed in Hawaii as a squad leader at Schofield Barracks, where prostitution was not a heavily prosecuted crime, Marrow met a pimp named Mac. Mac admired that Marrow could quote Iceberg Slim and he taught Marrow how to be a pimp himself. Marrow was also able to purchase stereo equipment cheaply in Hawaii, including two Technics turntables, a mixer, and large speakers. Once equipped, he then began to learn turntablism and rapping.

Towards the end of his tenure in the Army, Marrow learned from his commanding officer that he could receive an honorable discharge because he was a single father, so he left four months ahead of schedule.

During an episode of the Adam Carolla Podcast that aired on June 6, 2012, Marrow claimed that after being discharged from the Army, he began a career as a bank robber. Marrow claimed he and some associates began conducting take-over bank robberies, "...like [in the film] Heat." Marrow then elaborated, explaining, "Only punks go for the drawer, we gotta go for the safe." Although Marrow may have been lying about his bank robbing exploits, he also stated he was glad the United States justice system has a statute of limitations, which had likely expired when Marrow admitted to his involvement in multiple Class 1 Felonies in the early- to mid-1980s.

Career

Music

Early career (1980-1981)

After leaving the Army, Marrow wanted to stay away from gang life and violence and instead make a name for himself as a disc jockey. As a tribute to Iceberg Slim, Marrow adopted the stage name Ice-T. While performing as a DJ at parties, he received more attention for his rapping, which led Ice-T to pursue a career as a rapper. After breaking up with his girlfriend Caitlin Boyd, he returned to a life of crime and robbed jewelry stores with his high school friends. Ice-T's raps later described how he and his friends pretended to be customers to gain access before smashing the display glass with baby sledgehammers.

Ice-T's friends Al P. and Sean E. Sean went to prison. Al P. was caught in 1982 and sent to prison for robbing a high-end jewelry store in Laguna Niguel for $2.5 million in jewelry. Sean was arrested for possession of not only cannabis, which Sean sold, but also material stolen by Ice-T. Sean took the blame and served two years in prison. Ice-T stated that he owed a debt of gratitude to Sean because his prison time allowed him to pursue a career as a rapper. Concurrently, he wound up in a car accident and was hospitalized as a John Doe because he did not carry any form of identification due to his criminal activities. After being discharged from the hospital, he decided to abandon the criminal lifestyle and pursue a professional career rapping. Two weeks after being released from the hospital, he won an open mic competition judged by Kurtis Blow.

Professional career (1982-present)

In 1982, Ice-T met producer Willie Strong from Saturn Records. In 1983, Strong recorded Ice-T's first single, "Cold Wind Madness", also known as "The Coldest Rap", an electro hip-hop record that became an underground success, becoming popular even though radio stations did not play it due to the song's hardcore lyrics. That same year, Ice-T released "Body Rock," another electro hip-hop single that found popularity in clubs. Ice-T then was a featured rapper on "Reckless", a single by DJ Chris "The Glove" Taylor that appeared on the soundtrack for the 1984 movie Breakin'. He next recorded the songs "Ya Don't Quit" and "Dog'n the Wax (Ya Don't Quit-Part II)" with Unknown DJ, who provided a Run-D.M.C.-like sound for the songs.

Ice-T received further inspiration as an artist from Schoolly D's gangsta rap single "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?", which he heard in a club. Ice-T enjoyed the single's sound and delivery, as well as its vague references to gang life, although the real life gang, Park Side Killers, was not named in the song.

Ice-T decided to adopt Schoolly D's style, and wrote the lyrics to his first gangsta rap song, "6 in the Mornin'", in his Hollywood apartment, and created a minimal beat with a Roland TR-808. He compared the sound of the song, which was recorded as a B-Side on the single "Dog'n The Wax", to that of the Beastie Boys. The single was released in 1986, and he learned that "6 in the Mornin'" was more popular in clubs than its A-side, leading Ice-T to rap about Los Angeles gang life, which he described more explicitly than any previous rapper. He intentionally did not represent any particular gang, and wore a mixture of red and blue clothing and shoes to avoid antagonizing gang-affiliated listeners, who debated his true affiliation.

Ice-T finally landed a deal with a major label Sire Records. When label founder and president Seymour Stein heard his demo, he said, "He sounds like Bob Dylan." Shortly after, he released his debut album Rhyme Pays in 1987 supported by DJ Evil E, DJ Aladdin and producer Afrika Islam, who helped create the mainly party-oriented sound. The record wound up being certified gold by the RIAA. That same year, he recorded the title theme song for Dennis Hopper's Colors, a film about inner-city gang life in Los Angeles. His next album Power was released in 1988, under his own label Rhyme Syndicate, and it 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 his popularity by matching excellent abrasive music with narrative and commentative lyrics. In the same year, he appeared on Hugh Harris's single Alice.

In 1991, he released his album O.G. Original Gangster, which is regarded as one of the albums that defined gangsta rap. On OG, he introduced his heavy metal band Body Count in a track of the same name. Ice-T toured with Body Count on the first annual Lollapalooza concert tour in 1991, gaining him appeal among middle-class teenagers and fans of alternative music genres. The album Body Count was released in March 1992. For his appearance on the heavily collaborative track "Back on the Block", a composition by jazz musician Quincy Jones that "attempt[ed] to bring together black musical styles from jazz to soul to funk to rap", Ice-T won a Grammy Award for the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, an award shared by others who worked on the track including Jones and fellow jazz musician Ray Charles.

Controversy later surrounded Body Count over its song "Cop Killer". The rock song was intended to speak from the viewpoint of a criminal getting revenge on racist, brutal cops. Ice-T's rock song infuriated government officials, the National Rifle Association and various police advocacy groups. Consequently, Time Warner Music refused to release Ice-T's upcoming album Home Invasion because of the controversy surrounding "Cop Killer". Ice-T suggested that the furor over the song was an overreaction, telling journalist Chuck Philips "...they've done movies about nurse killers and teacher killers and student killers. Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that." In the same interview, Ice-T suggested to Philips that the misunderstanding of Cop Killer, the misclassification of it as a rap song (not a rock song), and the attempts to censor it had racial overtones: "The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer."

When Ice split amicably with Sire/Warner Bros. Records after a dispute over the artwork of the album Home Invasion, he reactivated Rhyme Syndicate and formed a deal with Priority Records for distribution. Priority released Home Invasion in the spring of 1993. The album peaked at #9 on Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at #14 on the Billboard 200, spawning several singles including "Gotta Lotta Love", "I Ain't New To This" and "99 Problems" - which would later inspire Jay-Z to record a version with new lyrics in 2003.

Ice-T had also collaborated with certain other heavy metal bands during this time period. For the film Judgment Night, he did a duet with Slayer on the track "Disorder". In 1995, Ice-T made a guest performance on Forbidden by Black Sabbath. Another album of his, VI - Return of the Real, was released in 1996, followed by The Seventh Deadly Sin in 1999.

His first rap album since 1999, Gangsta Rap, was released on October 31, 2006. The album's cover, which "shows [Ice-T] lying on his back in bed with his ravishing wife's ample posterior in full view and one of her legs coyly draped over his private parts," was considered to be too suggestive for most retailers, many of which were reluctant to stock the album. Some reviews of the album were unenthusiastic, as many had hoped for a return to the political raps of Ice-T's most successful albums.

Ice-T appears in the film Gift. One of the last scenes includes Ice-T and Body Count playing with Jane's Addiction in a version of the Sly and the Family Stone song "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey."

Besides fronting his own band and rap projects, Ice-T has also collaborated with other hard rock and metal bands, such as Icepick, Motrhead, Slayer, Pro-Pain, and Six Feet Under. He has also covered songs by hardcore punk bands such as The Exploited, Jello Biafra, and Black Flag. Ice-T made an appearance at Insane Clown Posse's Gathering of the Juggalos (2008 edition). Ice-T was also a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists. His 2012 film Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap features a who's who of underground and mainstream rappers.

In November 2011, Ice-T announced via Twitter that he was in the process of collecting beats for his next LP which was expected sometime during 2012, but as of October 2014, the album has not been released. A new Body Count album, Bloodlust, was released in 2017. After the release of the album, responding to an interview question asking if he's "done with rap", he answered "I don't know" and noted that he's "really leaning more toward EDM right now".

Acting

Television and film

Ice-T's first film appearances were in the motion pictures, Breakin' (1984), and its sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1985). These films were released before Ice-T released his first LP, although he appears on the soundtrack to Breakin. He has since stated he considers the films and his own performance in them to be "wack".

In 1991, he embarked on a serious acting career, portraying police detective Scotty Appleton in Mario Van Peebles' action thriller New Jack City, gang leader Odessa (alongside Denzel Washington and John Lithgow) in Ricochet (1991), gang leader King James in Trespass (1992), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game (1994), in addition to many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic (1995), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl (1995). He was also interviewed in the Brent Owens documentary Pimps Up, Ho's Down, in which he claims to have had an extensive pimping background before getting into rap. He is quoted as saying "once you max something out, it ain't no fun no more. I couldn't really get no farther." He goes on to explain his pimping experience gave him the ability to get into new businesses. "I can't act, I really can't act, I ain't no rapper, it's all game. I'm just working these niggas." Later he raps at the Players Ball.

In 1993, Ice-T along with other rappers and the three Yo! MTV Raps hosts Ed Lover, Doctor Dr and Fab 5 Freddy starred in the comedy Who's the Man?, directed by Ted Demme. In the movie, he is a drug dealer who gets really frustrated when someone calls him by his real name, "Chauncey," rather than his street name, "Nighttrain."

In 1995, Ice-T had a recurring role as vengeful drug dealer Danny Cort on the television series New York Undercover, co-created by Dick Wolf. His work on the series earned him the 1996 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. In 1997, he co-created the short-lived series Players, produced by Wolf. This was followed by a role as pimp Seymour "Kingston" Stockton in Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998). These collaborations led Wolf to add Ice-T to the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Since 2000 he has portrayed Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, a former undercover narcotics officer transferred to the Special Victims Unit. In 2002, the NAACP awarded Ice-T with a second Image Award, again for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, for his work on Law & Order: SVU.

Around 1995, Ice-T co-presented a UK-produced magazine television series on black culture, Baadasss TV.

In 1997, Ice-T had a pay-per-view special titled Ice-T's Extreme Babes which appeared on Action PPV, formerly owned by BET networks.

In 1999, Ice-T starred in the HBO movie Stealth Fighter as a United States Naval Aviator who fakes his own death, steals a F-117 stealth fighter, and threatens to destroy United States military bases. He also acted in the movie Sonic Impact, released the same year.

Ice-T made an appearance on the comedy television series Chappelle's Show as himself presenting the award for "Player Hater of the Year" at the "Player-Haters Ball", a parody of his own appearance at the Players Ball. He was dubbed the "Original Player Hater."

Beyond Tough, a 2002 documentary series, aired on Discovery Channel about the world's most dangerous and intense professions, such as alligator wrestlers and Indy 500 pit crews, was hosted by Ice-T.

In 2007, Ice-T appeared as a celebrity guest star on the MTV sketch comedy show Short Circuitz. Also in late 2007, he appeared in the short-music film Hands of Hatred, which can be found online.

Ice-T was interviewed for the Cannibal Corpse retrospective documentary Centuries of Torment, as well as appearing in Chris Rock's 2009 documentary Good Hair, in which he reminisced about going to school in hair curlers.

A 2016 advertisement for GEICO features Ice-T behind a lemonade stand run by children. When people ask if it's Ice-T, the actor yells back, "No, it's lemonade!"

Voice acting

Ice-T voiced Madd Dogg in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as well as Agent Cain in Sanity: Aiken's Artifact. He also appears as himself in Def Jam: Fight for NY and UFC: Tapout fighting video games.

He also voiced the character Aaron Griffin in the video game Gears of War 3.

He was the voice of Jackie A in Tommy and the Cool Mule.

He voiced over the "LawBreakers" announcement trailer.

Other ventures

Podcasting

On December 27, 2013, Ice-T announced that he was entering podcasting in a deal with the Paragon Collective. Ice-T co-hosts the Ice-T: Final Level podcast with his longtime friend and manager, Mick Benzo (known as Zulu Beatz on Sirius XM). They discuss relevant issues, movies, video games, and do a behind the scenes of Law Order: SVU segment with featured guests from the entertainment world. The show will release new episodes bi-weekly. Guests have included Jim Norton. Ice-T released his first episode on January 7 to many accolades.

Reality television

On October 20, 2006, Ice-T's Rap School aired and was a reality television show on VH1. It was a spin-off of the British reality show Gene Simmons' Rock School, which also aired on VH1. In Rap School, rapper/actor Ice-T teaches eight teens from York Preparatory School in New York called the "York Prep Crew" ("Y.P. Crew" for short). Each week, Ice-T gives them assignments and they compete for an imitation gold chain with a microphone on it. On the season finale on November 17, 2006, the group performed as an opening act for Public Enemy.

On June 12, 2011, E! reality show Ice Loves Coco debuted. The show is mostly about his relationship with his wife of ten years, Nicole "Coco" Austin.

Style and influence

Ice-T cites writer Iceberg Slim and rapper Schoolly D as influences, with Iceberg Slim's novels guiding his skills as a lyricist. His favorite heavy rock acts are Edgar Winter, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. His hip hop albums helped shape the gangsta rap style, with music journalists tracing works of artists such as Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Eminem and N.W.A to "6 in the Mornin'".

His love of rock music led Ice-T to use electric guitar in the instrumentation of his hip hop albums in order to provide his songs with edge and power, and to make his raps harder; he used the fusion of rock and hip hop of Rick Rubin-produced acts like Beastie Boys, Run-DMC and LL Cool J, which featured rock samples in their songs. His work with Body Count, whose 1992 debut album Ice-T described as a "rock album with a rap mentality", is described as paving the way for the success of rap rock fusions by bands like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit; however, Ice-T states that the band's style does not fuse the two genres, and is solely a rock band. He is also a fan of the British singer Phil Collins; Collins claimed he was "incredibly flattered" when he learned this.

Personal life

In 1976, Marrow's girlfriend Adrienne gave birth to their daughter LeTesha (born March 20, 1976) and they attended high school while raising her. While filming Breakin' in 1984, he met his second girlfriend Darlene Ortiz, who had been at the club in which the film was being shot. They began a relationship and Ortiz was featured on the covers of Rhyme Pays and Power. Ice-T and Ortiz had son Ice Tracy Marrow in 1992. Ice-T married swimsuit model Nicole "Coco Marie" Austin in January 2002. In celebration of their impending 10th wedding anniversary, the couple renewed their wedding vows on June 4, 2011. As of 2006 they owned a penthouse apartment in North Bergen, New Jersey, In 2012 they were building a five-bedroom house in Edgewater, New Jersey, that was expected to be completed by the end of the year. On November 28, 2015, the couple announced their child Chanel Nicole Marrow had been born, without specifying the exact date.

Activism

During the popularity of Public Enemy, Ice-T was closely associated with the band and his recordings of the time showed a similar political viewpoint. He was referred to as "The Soldier of the Highest Degree" in the booklet for Fear of a Black Planet and mentioned on the track "Leave This Off Your F***in' Charts". He also collaborated with fellow anti-censorship campaigner Jello Biafra on his album The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!.

On June 5, 2008, Ice-T joked that he would be voting for John McCain in the 2008 American elections, speculating that his past affiliation with Body Count could hurt Barack Obama's chances if he endorsed him, so he'd choose instead to ruin John McCain's campaign by saying he supported him.

Personal disputes

LL Cool J

Ice-T had a non-publicized feud with LL Cool J in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Apparently, this was instigated by LL's claim to be "the baddest rapper in the history of rap itself". Ice-T recorded disses against LL on his 1988 album Power. On the album was the track, "I'm Your Pusher", in which a rap music addict declines to buy an LL Cool J record. The album also contains the posse rap track, "The Syndicate", which took aim at LL's lyrical ability, claiming that rapping about oneself so frequently was a "first grade topic". The song also mocked the song's hook "I'm Bad", which identified it as an LL diss specifically. In the book Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies, Ice-T said that the song "Girls W.G.B.N.A.F." was also intended as a diss to LL Cool J, by making a crude song to contrast with the love songs that LL was making at the time.

On LL's response, To da Break of Dawn in 1990, he dissed Kool Moe Dee (whose feud with LL was far more publicized) as well as MC Hammer. He then devoted the third verse of the song to dissing Ice-T, mocking his rap ability ("take your rhymes around the corner to rap rehab"), his background ("before you rapped, you was a downtown car thief"), and his style ("a brother with a perm deserves to get burned"). He also suggested that the success of Power was due to the appearance of Ice-T's girlfriend Darlene on the album cover. Ice-T appeared to have ignored the insults and he had also defended LL Cool J after his arrest in the song "Freedom of Speech".

In August 2012, Ice-T said that the rivalry was "never serious" and that he needed a nemesis to create "an exciting dispute".

Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

In June 2008, on DJ Cisco's Urban Legend mixtape, Ice-T criticized DeAndre Cortez "Soulja Boy Tell 'Em" Way for "killing hip hop" and his song "Crank That" for being "garbage" compared to the works of other hip-hop artists such as Rakim, Das EFX, Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube. One of the comments in the exchange was when Ice-T told Way to "eat a dick". The two then traded numerous videos back and forth over the Internet. These videos included a cartoon and video of Ice-T dancing on Way's behalf and an apology, but reiteration of his feelings that Way's music "sucks", on Ice-T's behalf. Rapper Kanye West defended Way saying "He came from the "?hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song."

Discography

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Studio albums

• 1987: Rhyme Pays
• 1988: Power
• 1989: The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say
• 1991: O.G. Original Gangster
• 1993: Home Invasion
• 1996: Ice-T VI: Return of the Real
• 1999: The Seventh Deadly Sin
• 2006: Gangsta Rap

With Body Count

• 1992: Body Count
• 1994: Born Dead
• 1997: Violent Demise: The Last Days
• 2006: Murder 4 Hire
• 2014: Manslaughter
• 2017: Bloodlust

Collaboration albums

• 1983: Breaking And Entering (with The Radio Crew)
• 1988: Rhyme Syndicate Comin' Through (with Rhyme $yndicate)
• 2000: Pimp to Eat (with Analog Brothers)
• 2004: Repossession (with SMG)
• 2008: Urban Legends (with Black Ice)

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1984	Breakin'	Rap Talker	Debut on film
1985	Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo	Radiotron Rapper
	Rappin'	Himself
1991	New Jack City	Scotty Appleton	Nominated: MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
	Ricochet	Odessa
1992	Why Colors?	Himself
	Trespass	King James
1993	CB4	Himself
	Who's the Man?	Nighttrain/Chauncey
	Gift	Himself	Video
1994	Surviving the Game	Jack Mason	First leading role
1995	Tank Girl	T-Saint
	Johnny Mnemonic	J-Bone
1996	Frankenpenis	Himself	Direct-to-video
1997	Below Utopia	Jim
	Rhyme & Reason	Himself	Documentary
	Mean Guns	Vincent Moon
	The Deli	Phil The Meat Man
1998	Crazy Six	Raul
	Pimps Up, Ho's Down	Himself	Documentary
1999	Sonic Impact	Agent Taja
	The Wrecking Crew	Menace
	The Heist	C-Note
	Frezno Smooth	DJ Superfly
	Judgment Day	Matthew Reese	Video
	Urban Menace	Narrator
	Stealth Fighter	Owen Turner	Also executive producer
	Final Voyage	Josef
	Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang	Justice Rough, The Judge
	Corrupt	Corrupt
2000	Gangland	Officer Dunn
	Leprechaun in the Hood	Mack Daddy	Video
	Luck of the Draw	Macneilly
	The Alternate	Agent Williams
2001	Kept	Jack Mosler
	Stranded	Jeffries	Johnathan
	Crime Partners 2000	King Fischer
	3000 Miles to Graceland	Hamilton
	Point Doom	Ringman
	Deadly Rhapsody	Wilson
	'R Xmas	The Kidnapper
	Guardian	Max
	Tara	Grady
	Ticker	Terrorist Commander
	Out Kold	Goldie
	Ablaze	Albert Denning
	Air Rage	Matt Marshall	Video
	Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy	Himself	Documentary
2002	On the Edge	Slim Jim
	Stranded	Jeffries
	Big Pun Still Not a Player	Himself	Documentary
2003	Beef	Himself	Documentary
	Cwalk: It's a Way of Livin	Himself	Documentary
	Tupac: Resurrection	Himself	Documentary
	Crime Partners	King Fischer
2004	Lexie	Rasheed	Video
	Up In Harlem	Himself
	Beef II	Himself	Documentary
	And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop	Himself
	Prison Ball	Narrator
2005	Tracks	Officer Brian Clark
	Fuck	Himself	Documentary
	There's a God on the Mic	Himself	Documentary
2006	Copy That	Himself
2007	Apartment 309	Detective Shearod
2008	A Family Underground	Himself	Direct-to-DVD Documentary
2009	Good Hair	Himself	Documentary
	Tommy and the Cool Mule	Jackie A (voice)
2010	The Other Guys	Narrator	Uncredited
	GhettoPhysics	Himself	Docudrama
2011	The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique	Himself	Documentary
2011	Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation	Narrator	TV movie documentary, also executive producer
2012	Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap	Himself	Actor, Director, Producer
	Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp	Himself	Actor, Producer
2013	Santorini Blue	Dr. Lewis
	Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire	Narrator
2014	Crossed the Line	Miguel
2015	What Now	Himself
	The Ghetto	Victor
2016	How We Met	Narrator
2017	Bloodrunners	Chesterfield	Lead Bat

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1983	Fame	One of the 'Enforcers'	Episode: "Break Dance"
1985	The Merv Griffin Show	Himself	Interview and live performance
1989	Yo! MTV Raps	Himself	3 episodes
1989-1994	The Arsenio Hall Show	Himself	7 interviews and live performances
1990	Rapmania: The Roots of Rap	Himself	TV Movie
	The Earth Day Special	Himself	Television special
	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Himself	Episode dated 7 March 1990
1990-1992	Ebony/Jet Showcase	Himself	2 Episodes
1991	Soul Train	Himself
1991-94	The Arsenio Hall Show	Himself	2 appearances
1994-2008	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Himself	17 appearances
1995	New York Undercover	Danny Up/Danny Cort	Episode: "CAT" Episode: "Catman Comes Back" Episode: "The Finals" (as Danny Cort)
	Baadasss TV	Co-host	Two series each of 6 episodes.
1996	Swift Justice	Earl Borgese	Episode: "Takin' Back the Street"
	MADtv	Host	Season 2 episode 2
	Later... with Jools Holland	Himself	Episode #7.4
1997	Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man	Taanzi	Episode: "Ebony, Baby"
	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Himself	Episode: "Needledrop"
	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Himself	Episode dated 17 October 1997
1997-98	Players	Isaac "Ice" Gregory	Main Cast
1998	Welcome to Paradox	Revell	Episode: "The Winner"
	Exiled	Seymour 'Kingston' Stockton	Television film
	The Roseanne Show	Himself	Episode #1.26
1999	L.A. Heat	Cage	Episode: "Rap Sheet"
	Batman Beyond	Ramrod	Episode: "Splicers"
	V.I.P	The Prophet	Episode: "Val the Hard Way" Episode: "Val Goes To Town"
	Sin City Spectacular	Himself
	Later	Host	Episode dated 8 February 1999
2000	The Disciples	The Sensei	Television film
	PhatClips	Himself	Interview
	WrestleMania 2000	Himself	Performer
	Behind the Music	Himself	Episode: Ice-T
2000-present	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Sergeant Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Replaced Monique Jeffries starting with Season 2, Main Cast, 380 episodes
2001	The Roast of Hugh Hefner	Himself	Roaster
	Weakest Link	Himself	Game show, Episode: Scene Stealers Edition
2002	Beyond Tough	Himself	Host
2002-06	Last Call with Carson Daly	Himself	3 appearances
2003	Chappelle's Show	Himself	Episode #1.9
2005	Law & Order	Sergeant Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Episode: "Flaw" (second half of cross-over with Law & Order: SVU episode "Design").
2006	Ice-T's Rap School	Himself	Reality show
	The Wendy Williams Experience	Himself	Episode dated 20 October 2006
2007	Belzer Vizion	Himself	Interview
	Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav	Himself	Roaster
	etalk	Himself	Episode dated 27 July 2007
2008	The Jace Hall Show	Himself	Episode: "Blizzard's World of Warcraft Feat. Ice T. & Coco"
2009	The Magic 7	Dr. Scratch (voice)	Animated TV movie
	The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien	Himself	1 appearance
2009-2010	I Get That a Lot	Himself	TV special
2010	All Star Mr & Mrs	Himself with his wife Coco	Final round
	The Jace Hall Show	Himself	3 episodes
	Sounds Like a Revolution	Himself	Documentary
2011-2013	Ice Loves Coco	Himself	Reality Show
	30 Rock	Sergeant Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Episodes: Qu Sorpresa!, Hogcock & Last Lunch
2011	Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump	Himself	Audience member
	The Colbert Report	Himself	Guest
	Lopez Tonight	Himself	Guest
	Give it up for Greg Giraldo	Himself	Documentary
2012	Live! with Kelly	Himself	Interview
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Himself	Interview
	Alternative Press Music Awards	Himself
	Celebrities Undercover	Himself	1 episode
2014-2016	Chicago P.D.	Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Episodes: "Conventions", "The Number of Rats", "The Song of Gregory Williams Yates"
2015	Ice & Coco	Himself
2016	Younger	Himself	Episode: "Secrets & Liza"
	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Himself	Episode: "Kimmy Sees a Sunset!"
	Hip-Hop Evolution	Himself	Music documentary series

Videos

Year	Name	Role	Notes
1984	Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!	Himself	Music arranger: vocal arrangements for Mr. T
1989	The Iceberg Video	Himself	Includes music videos and live performances
1990	Slammin' Rap Video Magazine	Himself	Interview
1991	O.G. The Original Gangster Video	Himself	Includes music videos from O.G. Original Gangster
2002	The Repossession Live	Himself	Concert video
2005	Smokeout Festival Presents: Body Count and Ice-T	Himself	Concert video
	Live in L.A.	Himself	Concert video

Video games

Year	Video game	Role	Notes
1993	Prime Mover		Amiga
2000	Sanity: Aiken's Artifact	Agent Nathaniel Cain	Voice
2002	UFC: Tapout	Himself	Voice
2004	Def Jam Fight for NY	Himself	Voice and Likeness
	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	Madd Dogg	Voice
2006	Scarface: The World Is Yours	Himself	Voice
2011	Gears of War 3	Aaron Griffin	Voice and Likeness

As a producer

Year	Title	Notes
1999	Judgment Day	Executive producer
1999	Stealth Fighter	Executive producer
1999	Urban Menace	Video
1999	Corrupt	Film
2000	The Wrecking Crew	Film
2002	Beyond Tough	TV series documentary, co-producer
2004	Up in Harlem	Associate producer
2008	Ice-T presents: 25 to life	Executive producer
2010	The Peacemaker	TV Series, executive producer 6 episodes
2011-2013	Ice Loves Coco	Executive producer, 29 episodes
2011	Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation	TV movie documentary, also narrator
2012	Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap	Executive producer
2012	Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp	Executive producer
2015	Ice & Coco	TV series, executive producer

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1991	Back on the Block	Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
1992	"New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)"	Best Rap Solo Performance

MTV Video Music Awards

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1989	"Colors"	Best Rap Video
1989	"Colors"	Best Video from a Film
1991	"New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)"	Best Rap Video

MTV Movie Awards

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1992	"New Jack City "	Best Breakthrough Performance

Image Awards

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1996	"New York Undercover "	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
2002	"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
2004	"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
2006	"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
2012	"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Adult Video News Awards

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
2004	"Pimpin' 101 "	Best Non-Sex Performance - Film or Video

News & Documentary Emmy Award

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
2012	"Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation"	Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming

All Def Movie Awards

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
2016	"Surviving the Game"	Best Black Survivor in a Movie

Bibliography

• The Ice Opinion: Who Gives a Fuck?, with Heidi Siegmund (1994)
• Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption"?from South Central to Hollywood (2011)
• Kings of Vice (2011)
• Mirror Image (2013)