Ice-T

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ice-T
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Feb 16, 1958(1958-02-16)
Age	66
Birthplace	Newark
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Aquarius

Ice-T Biography

Ice-T is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on February 16, 1958 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American musician, rapper, songwriter, actor, criminal, 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 second hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker after Slick Rick’s La Di Da Di. 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, which went on to go Platinum. He also released several other albums that went Gold.

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” (1979), 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.

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. In 1984, Ice-T released the single Killers, the first of his political raps, and then was a featured rapper on “Reckless”, a single by DJ Chris “The Glove” Taylor and (co-producer) David Storrs. This song was almost immediately followed up with a sequel entitled “Reckless Rivalry (Combat)”, which was featured in the Breakin’ sequel, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, however it was never featured on the soundtrack album and, to this day, has never been released. Ice later 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’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.

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 was discharged in December 1979.

Ice-T Net Worth

Ice-T is one of the richest Musician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ice-T 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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. Once his daughter was born, he joined the United States Army in October 1977. Marrow served a two-year and two-month tour in the 25th Infantry Division and was involved with a group of soldiers charged with the theft of a rug. While awaiting trial, he received a $2,500 bonus check and went absent without leave, returning a month later, after the rug had been returned. Marrow received a non-judicial punishment as a consequence of his dereliction of duty.

On March 20, 1976, Marrow’s girlfriend Adrienne gave birth to their daughter LeTesha, and they attended high school while raising her. While filming Breakin’ in 1984, he met his second girlfriend Darlene Ortiz, who was at the club where the film was 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 had a 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 L.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.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Ice-T Dating?

According to our records, Ice-T married to Coco Austin. As of December 1, 2023, Ice-T’s is not dating anyone.

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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.

Facts & Trivia

Ifeoma Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ice-T celebrates birthday on February 16 of every year.

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”, the lyrics of which discussed 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. In 2018, he began hosting the true crime documentary, In Ice Cold Blood, on the Oxygen cable channel. In 2020, In Ice Cold Blood began its third season.

What is Ice-T's net worth?

Net Worth: $65 Million
Date of Birth:| Feb 16, 1958 (64 years old)
Gender:| Male
Height:| 5 ft 10 in (1.8 m)
Profession:| Actor, Musician, Film Producer, Film Score Composer, Rapper, Author, Screenwriter, Record producer, Entrepreneur, Voice Actor

Are Ice Cube and Ice-T related?

As you know by now, Ice-T has a talk show with his wife Coco. They welcomed onto the program another legendary rapper by the name of Ice Cube. Now, Ice-T is not Ice Cube.

What is Ice-T ethnicity?

Early life. Tracy Lauren Marrow, the son of Solomon and Alice Marrow, was born in Newark, New Jersey on February 16, 1958. Solomon was African-American and his mother Alice was from a Louisiana Creole background.

What does the T in Ice-T stand for?

So he went by Trey until he picked up some books by pimp turned author Iceberg Slim. People would say to him, “Say some more of that Iceberg stuff, T,” which turned into Ice-T — cool T, for Tracy. Ice-T says he idolized Slim in high school — and even tried his own luck at pimping.

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