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Born Februrary 16, 1958

Tracy Marrow, better known by stage name Ice-T, and nickname O.G. (Original g**filter**sta) is an American rapper, rock musician, author and actor. He was instrumental in creating g**filter**sta rap. Since 2000, he has played the role of Det. Fin Tutuola on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. As of 2007, Marrow resides in North Bergen, New Jersey.

Biography :

Although one of West Coast rap's leading figures, Tracy Marrow, son of Solomon and Alice, was actually born in urban Newark, New Jersey, and christened Tracy by his father. Marrow has said that his father gave him a girl's name in order to "teach a brother to fi**filter**t.". When he was a child, he moved from his native Newark to the upscale community of Summit, New Jersey, to live with an aunt, then finally to California after his parents d**filter**d, his mother of a heart at**filter**ck when he was in third grade and his father of a heart at**filter**k four years later. After his father d**filter**ed, he went to live with his paternal aunt in South Central Los Angeles' Crenshaw district, he quickly became infatuated with the ways of "ghetto street life" and eventually even joined in with one of the many sets of the infamous street ga**filter**g, the Crips, as an affiliate of the West Side Rollin 30s Original Harlem Crips.

Marrow attended Crenshaw High School, where he became obsessed with rap, often reciting rhymes for classmates. It was during this time that he fathered a daughter, Letesha. After leaving high school, he joined the U**filter**y; he has stated he did not enjoy the experience, explaining, "I didn't like total submission to a leader other than myself." After leaving the a**filter**y in 1983, Ice had intentions of starting a career in rap, but he once again became involved in the street life, first as a jewel thief, then later as a p**filter**p. A car cr**filter**h in 1985 was the turning point in Ice-T's life. He aba**filter**ed the street life and focused on rapping.

He was previously in a relationship with Darlene Ortiz (1986-2002), who was featured on the covers of his early albums. During that relationship, which ended in 2002, they had one child together who goes by the name of Tracy Marrow, Jr. In 2004, Ice married swimsuit model Nicole Austin.

Career

Ice-T performs at a bo**filter**y c**filter**nt concert in Prague, 2006 Marrow's stage name Ice-T was originally his street moniker, styled after the famous ex**filter**p turned author Iceberg Slim. In an introduction to the 1996 Canongate Books reprint of Iceberg Slim's 1969 autobiography 'p**filter**p', Ice-T explained: "Although I never met the man, Iceberg Slim was to have a profound effect on my career and life... Like him, I wanted to be somebody who didn't just d**filter**e there out on the streets. I wanted to be able to document some of my experiences, and that's what I've been trying to do in my music for the past decade. I took my rap name in tribute to him, and I've never regretted it. He was a real hus**filter**r."

All of Ice-T's records on warner Bros. spell his name Ice-T, while the spelling without the hyphen is more often used on more recent records. His earliest 12" shows the spelling Ice "T", other 12"s use Ice-T (re**filter**s, Ice Sk**filter**let, Slippery Pete) and Ice T (Ya Don't Quit). Ice-T has also been referred to as 'Sk**filter**et' or 'Ice S**filter**et', a nickname used by fans in his early years, and Iceberg, a nickname used on the albums Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say and g**filter**sta Rap, and in the 2004 video game Def Jam: Fi**filter**t for NY, where in the story mode of the game, a character based on him says, "You cannot d**filter**at the Iceberg, p**filter**".

Music career

After leaving the A**filter**, Ice-T began his extremely long career of recording raps for various studios on 12". These tracks were later compiled on "The Classic Collection" and also featured on disc 2 of "Legends of Hip-Hop". His first rap was "The Coldest Rap" in 1982; this was also the first hip hop record to use the words "nigga" and "ho," although few recognize this early record as "g**filter**sta rap". His first official "g**filter**sta rap" record was "6 in the Morning" one of the first g**filter**sta rap records ever recorded. He said he was influenced by the Schoolly D record "P.S.K.", considered by many to be the first g**filter**sta rap record (as it lionized the Philadelphia ga**filter**g, Park Side ki**filter**rs).

He finally landed a deal with a major label Sire Records. Shortly after, he released his debut album Rhyme Pays in 1987. On Rhyme Pays, he is supported by DJ Aladdin and producer Afrika I**filter**m, 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 -- also called "Colors" -- 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. 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 him as a true hip-hop superstar by matching excellent abrasive music with fierce, intelligent narratives, and pol**filter**al commentaries, especially about hip-hop censorship.

Ice-T is believed to be the first rapper to have ever performed the notorious Crip Walk (or C-Walk) up on stage, in front of cameras sometime in the '80s. This added to his already controversial fame and gave rise to the C-Walk's mainstream presentation in other videos via WC, Snoop Dogg, warren G, and other Crip-affiliated rap artists.

In 1991 he released his classic album OG: Original ga**filter**r, which is regarded as one of g**filter**sta Rap's defining albums. It was also on this album in which he introduced his heavy metal band bo**filter**y **filter**nt. He has released 4 other rap albums since then. His first rap album since 1999, g**filter**sta Rap, was released on October 31, 2006. The album's cover, which "shows 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 poli**filter**l raps of Ice-T's most successful albums.

Besides fronting his own band, Ice-T has also collaborated with other hard rock and metal bands, such as Icepick, Slayer, Motörhead, Pro-Pain, Black Sabbath, Six Feet Under. He has also covered songs by ha**filter**e p**filter**k bands such as The Exploited, Jello Biafra, and Black Flag.

Acting career

Ice-T debuted as an actor in the films Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo in 1984, only two years after his first 12" ("The Coldest Rap," 1982) appeared. In 1991, he embarked onto a serious acting career, playing a police detective in Mario Van Peebles' feature film New Jack City, ga**filter**g leader King James in Trespass (1992), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game in addition to his many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic (1995), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl, 1995. Ice-T was also interviewed in the Brent Owens documentary p**filter**ps Up, Ho's Down, in which he is quoted as saying "I can't act, I really can't act", and raps at the Players Ball.

In 1995 he had a recurring role as vengeful dr**filter**g dealer Danny Cort on the television series New York Undercover, which was co-created by d**filter**ck Wolf. In 1997, Ice-T co-created the short-lived series Players, which was produced by Wolf. These two collaborations led Wolf to add Ice-T to the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where the rapper has portrayed a former undercover g**filter**g member, transferred to the Special Victims Unit, Detective Fin Tutuola since 2000.

Ice-T also appeared in the Law & Order universe as p**filter**p Seymour "Kingston" Stockton in Exiled: A Law & Order Movie. His participation in this show is ironic, given the early controversy surrounding his group b**filter**dy co**filter**nt with their song "Cop ki**filter**r". Ice-T also appears in the movie Leprechaun: In the Hood. He once was presenter on Channel 4's Baa**filter**sss TV.

In 1999, Ice-T starred in the HBO movie Stealth Fighter as a United States Naval Aviator who fakes his own de**filter**h, steals a F-117 stealth fig**filter**r and threatens to dest**filter** United States mili**filter**y ba**filter**s. This movie is often criticized for its poor script, mi**filter**y inaccuracies, and significant use of footage from other movies.

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: Fi**filter**t for NY and UFC: Tapout fi**filter**ting video games. Ice-T made an appearance on Chappelle's Show as himself presenting the award for "Player Hater of the Year." He was dubbed the "Original Player Hater." At WrestleMania 2000, Ice-T performed his song "p**filter**in Ain't Easy" during The Godfather and D'Lo Brown's entrance. In 2007, he appeared as a ce**filter**ity guest star on the MTV sketch comedy show Short Circuitz.

Real Name: Tracey Marrow

D.O.B.: February 16, 1958 Newark, New Jersey

Ice-T has shown to be through all definitions, the sole embodiment of west coast rap. A founding O.G. of the West's movement, Ice-T's career continues to be one of the most successful in hip-hop. His work has ran a continual momentum of success parallel to the contemporary styles of the times, without almost any media support, his music has remained on the underground and yet his longevity in the game has left an impression as one of the most established artists in West coast hip-hop. Ice-T is a monster in LA's g**filter**sta rap scene, his early movements in the underground LA rap scene set the trend for the most powerful force in the global music industry. Ice-T is also instrumental in fathering the crossover of g**filter**sta rap and heavy rock, known as Urban-Rock or Rapcore. As well he paved the way for rap artists to establish careers as actors, marketed through mainstream TV as personalities and movie roles based on the ha**filter**re character their music provides them with. Ice-T is one of those community elders who has been there, and done everything that today's artists boast of. He is still today one of the most recognizable players in US hip-hop, the Original ga**filter**er, MC Ice-T.

Ice-T started his rap career becoming well-versed in the overall west coast scene of the hip-hop movement as it rolled right through California in the early 1980s. At a time when NWA was being credited with the birth of g**filter**sta rap, Ice-T wrote a track called "6 'n The Morning" that is now regarded as a seminal influence on the west coast's upbringing of hip-hop. He became the first west coast artist to be accepted and adopted by the forefathers of hip-hop in the east coast. Before Eazy created NWA's stringent ga**filter**rism, Ice-T carried the reality and personification of the LA g**filter**g culture breathing heavily from within his early ha**filter**e raps, Ice-T's music was always respected by the neighbourhood inner-city market who had the power to sh**filter**t down imitators of the game. A former Crip ga**filter**r, **filter**p, hustler and LA County ex-con there wasn't a struggle he couldn't speak on. His recordings were unmistakably direct on Public Enemy-style pol**filter**l awareness, KRS One's social righteousness with overtones of NWA's brutal h**filter**ism. He even grew too bad for g**filter**sta rap by bridging over to pander to the animosity of head-ba**filter**ing white audiences with his ha**filter**e urban rock outfit b**filter**y co**filter**t. However, Ice-T never did and never will lose what he was sent here to provide us with, h**filter**ore and he is synonymous with this through any media medium he uses.

BEFORE THE ICE BROKE

Young Tracey was born on the east coast, Newark New Jersey to be exact. When he was around the age of 12 he lost his parents in a car accident and spent his adolescent years on the west coast being cared for by relatives in South Central LA. He attended Crenshaw High School a heavily Hoover Crip g**filter**g populated school. He began dancing with the West Coast Locksmiths. Locking was a break dance-influenced dance created in the neighbouring Watts district in the early '70s. He later danced with the Radio Crew seen in the 1983 documentary 'Breakin and Enterin'. However at this stage as an impressionable t**filter**ger he was recruited in the street life and ga**filter** culture that plagued the inner cities of LA. Naturally as a student at Crenshaw High he ran with the notorious Hoovers and began reading ghetto-pulp literature on Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim the pi**filter**-turned writer. Later this would be the main influence for his stage name as a recording artist. While at Crenshaw High he campaigned for the Crips by writing slogans "Crips don't d**filter**, they multiply." Using the poetry of Iceberg Slim and his player toastin' format he would recite long rhymes, before thinking to put them to a beat. Like this one of Ice's verses popular with his set (g**filter**):

"Strollin' through the city in the middle of the night

Niggas on my left and niggas on my right

Yo I Cr-cr-cr-c**filter**ed every nigga I see

If you b**filter** enough come f**filter** with me."

While living in South Central he impregnated his high school girlfriend, fellow Hoover Criplette, Darlene whom he would later marry and stay with for over fifteen years. (Darlene posed for Ice-T's two first album covers. On 'O.G' she stood in a skimpy white thong beside Ice hiding a 12gauge sho**filter**n behind her.) After high school, Ice joined the Ar**filter** and served as a ra**filter**r in the 25th Inf**filter**y. He did not enjoy the experience explaining "I didn't like total submission to a leader other than myself."

After four years, (1981) he returned to his streets in LA with intentions of being a dance promoter. He said, "I thought it would be an easy way to make money, but after I carted all that equipment to a couple of jams I said **filter**k this! I found out I could walk in there with a mic, get some money and walk out, and I didn't have to carry no s**filter**t. So I started pu**filter**g toward being an MC versus a DJ."

Coldest Rapper

In the early '80s he was discovered at a hair salon rhyming to impress the ladies and was convinced to immortalize his ski**filter**s on wax. Ice was running with the pioneers of electronic-funk The Unknown DJ, Egyptian Lover and DJ Flash. His first recordings in '82 were the club-circuit favourite electro-funk classics "The Coldest Rap" and "Cold Wind Madness" released on Saturn Records. The recordings started a trend of long listed gold records despite receiving little to no air play due to the exp**filter**it nature of his lyrics by the rapper who was known becoming known as Ice-T. This controversy was never tamed in fact it became his major marketing tool in the future. Ice teamed up with a Mexican rapper, Arturo 'Kid Frost' Molina Jr. and together they performed raps at backyard parties and lowrider car shows throughout LA.

Born: 2/16/1958

Real Name: Tracy Marrow

Artist Name: Ice T

Born Tracy Morrow in Newark, New Jersey in 1959, rapper / musician / actor / activist Ice-T was raised in the ga**filter**g-infested, pi**filter**p-heavy streets of South Central, Los Angeles. He became immersed in both cultures, and began rapping about his daily activities while still a t**filter**er in high school. In fact, his current nickname was borrowed from the infamous p**filter**p-turned-writer, Iceberg Slim. Friends urged him to take his talents into a recording studio, where he recorded several rap singles.

Ice T did his first record "Coldest Rapp" on the Saturn label back in 1982 at the age of 23. He was one of the mayor rapper in the Disco Radio along with Henry G and DJ´s like Chris "the Glove" Taylor and Egyptian Lover. In 1983 director Topper Carrew produced a doku- mentary bout the Radio Club called "Breakin and Entering". For this early piece of West Coast History Ice T, Egyptian Lover and Chris "the Glove" Taylor recorded 5 songs which were released on the legendary "Radio Crew EP". In the year 1984 Ice T was introduced to DJ Pepo and Dave Storrs who already run one of the first West Coast Label called Electrobeat Records. In Dave Storrs Garage Studio he recorded "Body Rock" and "k**filter**rs" Chris "the Glove" Taylor who also did a release on this label called "Itchiban Scratch" hired Ice T for some rappin for a soundtrack to the movie Breakin he worked on. "re**filter**ss" was born and hit the streets with a mayor success. Ice T was also the first rapper who had a guest apperance at one of the legendary Uncle Jamms Ar**filter**y partys in the Sports Arena. He can be seen at movies like Breakin, Breakin 2, Rappin and Breakdance g**filter**g where he perform his early work like Coldest Rap, "r**filter**s" and ki**filter**s. In 1986 Ice T recorded the 12inch records "Ya don´t quit" and "Dog´n the wax" which where released on Unknown Dj´s Techno Hop label.

Ice is now one of the most known LA rappers he did several movies but all began back in the early 80´s with a man a vision and a cap with the writing "Ice T - Radio Crew".

Sources : Wikipedia, Ice-T Official Website

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