The song - also called "Colors" - was stronger, both lyrically and musically, with more incisive lyrics, than anything he had previously released. That same year, he recorded the theme song for Dennis Hopper's Colors, a film about inner-city life in Los Angeles. On the record, he is supported by DJ Aladdin and producer Afrika Islam, 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. Ice-T finally landed a major-label record deal with Sire Records in 1987, releasing his debut album, Rhyme Pays. He also appeared in the low-budget hip-hop films Rappin', Breakin', and Breakin' II: Electric Boogaloo as he was trying to establish a career.
After he left high school, he recorded several undistinguished 12" singles in the early '80s. Ice-T used to memorize lines of Iceberg Slim's poetry, reciting them for friends and classmates. Ice-T took his name from Iceberg Slim, a pimp who wrote novels and poetry. While he was in high school, he became obsessed with rap while he went to Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles. All the while, he has withstood a constant barrage of criticism and controversy to become a respected figure not only in the music press, but the mainstream media as well.Īlthough he was one of the leading figures of Californian hip-hop in the '80s, Ice-T was born in Newark, NJ., then moved to Los Angeles at the age of 12.
With his music, Ice-T has made a conscious effort to win the vast audience of white male adolescents, as his frequent excursions with his heavy metal band Body Count show. Ice-T's best recordings have always been made in conjunction with strong collaborators, whether it's the Bomb Squad or Jello Biafra. Just as often, he can slip into sexism and gratuitous violence, and even then his rhymes are clever and biting. At his best, the rapper has written some of the best portraits of ghetto life and gangsters, as well as some of the best social commentary hip-hop has produced.
Ice-T (born Tracy Marrow) has proven to be one of hip-hop's most articulate and intelligent stars, as well as one of its most frustrating.
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