Ice-T was born Tracy Morrow in Newark, New Jersey. While he was a teenager his parents were both killed in an auto accident, and he moved to South Central Los Angeles.

He is the father of gangsta rap, noted for the controversial nature of his lyrics, and has acted in a number of low-budget hip-hop and blaxploitation films, although he has also funded several youth-intervention programs in the Los Angeles ghetto: Hands Across Watts and South Central Love.

References

Ice-T, and Siegmund, Heidi. The Ice-T Opinion. (New York: St. Martins Press, 1994)
Who's Who in America 1996
[Interview], The Times [London], 25 May 1996, p. 10/14a
Guiness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 2nd edition, edited by Colin Larkin. (Enfield: Guiness Publishing, 1995)
Hardy, Phil, and Laing, Dave. The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music. (London: Faber and Faber, 1995)
Demyanenko, Alex. "Ice-T Gets Up Close and Personal." Available at: http://www.mrshowbiz.com/interviews/169_1.html
Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Ice-T: Biography." [Includes portrait]. Available at: http://www.ubl.com/ubl_artist.asp?artistid=2342
Sansevere, John R. Bad Boyz of Rap. (Racine: Western Pub., 1993) (Compact Books)

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