As his heavy metal band Body Count return, the vocalist and actor will answer questions about his varied career
With a scorn-dripping voice put to work on everything from classic hip-hop to gnarly heavy metal, Ice-T is one of America’s most iconic MCs – and as he and his band Body Count get ready to release their new album Merciless, he will be answering your questions.
Now 66, Ice-T was born in New Jersey but was orphaned as a young teenager and moved to Los Angeles, getting a taste for rock music from his cousin’s record collection, then rap after joining the US army. Following his discharge – and some petty criminality – he became a distinctive and authentic voice in his city’s burgeoning gangsta rap scene in the late 1980s, delivering crime stories such as 6 In the Mornin’ as a self-described “self-made monster of the city streets”.
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