Interesting Facts About Ice-T On His Birthday!
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 26: Ice-T and Coco Austin attend the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on August 26, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for MTV)
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!
(Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
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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