Interesting Facts About Ice-T On His Birthday!
Happy 63rd Birthday to rapper, songwriter, actor, record executive/producer and one of the originators of gangster rap, Ice-T!
Tracy Lauren Marrow aka Ice-T was born in Newark, New Jersey on February 16th, 1958. In honor of his 63rd birthday, check out some interesting facts and hit songs from the birthday boy!
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Did You Know…
- His stage name was inspired by author Iceberg Slim (the pen name of Robert Maupin Beck III)
- After graduating from high school, he served in the United States Army for four years.
- He got his big break in the 1984 break-dancing film, Breakin’
- He joined the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the second season, after a four episode guest arc turned in a regular position
- Ice-T wrote the introduction to the author’s posthumously released novel Doom Fox
- He recorded heavy metal tracks with the band ‘Body Count’ and rapped as a guest artist on the Black Sabbath album Forbidden (in 1995)
- Launched a clothing line, IceWear, in 2005
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*WARNING: The following video contain explicit language
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