In his lifetime, Tracy Marrow has been everything from a dancer and a DJ, to a thief and a weed dealer. Yet, from the minute Marrow became Ice-T, his renown developed and grew. Initially, being Ice…
In his lifetime, Tracy Marrow has been everything from a dancer and a DJ, to a thief and a weed dealer. Yet, from the minute Marrow became Ice-T, his renown developed and grew.
Speaking by phone from New Jersey , Ice-T reminisced about the hip-hop game, further fame and getting his flowers by way of Feb. 17’s star ceremony on theIf someone told you at your start that you would get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, what would you have said? Yeah, I went to Crenshaw High. That’s how I got introduced to Los Angeles gang culture. I also got introduced to dancers because I was in gymnastics. There was a dance, “locking,” made famous by the Lockers. Shabba Doo was a Locker, as was Toni Basil. I had a dance group called the West Coast Locksmiths, with whom I won a talent show in high school emulating the Lockers. That was my first time dealing with fame, feeling the excitement of being a celebrity.
You continued with Body Count, even getting Grammy-nominated for 2020’s song “Bum-Rush” for metal performance. But you stopped making Ice-T solo albums in 2006. Why?
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