Search and Destroy : Ice T

"...how does it feel? To look in the mirror and realize that you're a fuckin ho?"

"Fuck fuck around you get a left and a right FIST"

and an interview about mp3s where he predicts that mp3 car stereos will be that final straw that makes the format "blow up" - "i can put 3600 hours in my car stereo right now... that's like 3 weeks. CDs are tricky too, man. i had a CD go blank on me one time."

Does hip-hop have a sell-by date? I find myself listening to hip-hop albums intensely for awhile and then kind of ditching them.

Search: Power, The Iceberg. Destroy: his casual sexism and his acting career.

Ice-T's sexism is committed and 100%. The man attends pimp conventions. His little boy calls him "pimp daddy". I guess that's sexist. Where I come from it is at least.

Geordie - what happened on Oprah?

it only goes up to the part where Jello tries to quote Tipper, but She says it is a false quote

destroy any attempts at rock, including "The Girl Tried to Kill me" off Freedom of Speech (mostly worthless as a whole anyway)

MIDNIGHT chillin' at A.M/P.M.
Coolin' drinkin' apple juice
In Evil's BM

Go to the library, get some more ammo

http://blog.richmond.edu/heroes/files/2010/08/holmeswatson.jpg
"I don't like how this is going down, Holmes. Shit's real fucked up."

Ha ha I like how this thread begins in the context of an analog brothers album

COOLIN IN MY CRIB, COLD VIDEO DUBBIN
FBI WARNING? HUH, DON'T MEAN NOTHIN
THEY CALL THAT SHIT A CRIME? YO THAT SHIT'S A JOKE

I HIT RECORD ON MY DOPE REMOTE

Money controls the world and that's it.
And once you've got it, then you can talk shit!

Ain't nobody else's fault,
You played yourself.

oh my god this is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBKMHHx_4n0

I saw a midtown gig of Body Count's right in the middle of the "Cop Killer" storm. More NYPD outside the venue than you can imagine.

Ice T should have collab'ed with Metallica instead of Lou.

rhyme pays is basically the best one, huh

COOLIN IN MY CRIB, COLD VIDEO DUBBIN
FBI WARNING? HUH, DON'T MEAN NOTHIN
THEY CALL THAT SHIT A CRIME? YO THAT SHIT'S A JOKE

I HIT RECORD ON MY DOPE REMOTE

― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Friday, April 6, 2012 10:03 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This phrase frequently gets stuck in my head for some reason

OG is the best one

i got nothin to lose
much to gain
in my brain i got a capitalist migraine

OG is the best one

― smangerz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, October 13, 2013 8:27 PM

words of wisdom i got from an ice-t video interview when i was a teen: i paraphrase but it was something like, at one time he used a lot of variations of expressions like "fucking u up" then he came across a bad dude who did lots of prison and, as some sort of tough guy bravado decided to take him literally and offered to be fucked by him , not in a gay way (right) but in a "i don't give a fuck" tough guy way... so the lesson of that story , ice-t mused, was that no matter how tough you think you are, there is always someone out there a bit tougher than you. i thought it made sense, laws of probability making it so that if you keep acting like an asshole things are bound to end up badly 4 u. thanks ice!

capitalist migraine = one of the most memorable phrases in hiphop alltime

OG is the best one

― smangerz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, October 13, 2013 8:27 PM

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, October 14, 2013 11:44 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

any of the first 4 tbh

prefer Power but probably only for sentimental reasons

is that reason named Darlene?

am interviewing the guy next week…he was my favorite rapper from like 88-92, drove around listening to Power, FoS…JWWYS and OG shitloads…will have more shit to mention as I'm re-listening to those records and Body Count (laughed so hard at HE WANTS TO BORROW SOME MONEY FROM ME!!!!!!! in "the Winner Loses") for the first time since early 90s…I have to say that the new Body Count album has some shit that's funny as fuck…

in the meantime, would anyone like to recommend anything he did from "Home Invasion" on? It seems like, even though he had a perfectly respectable run, the Cop Killer capitulation was the end of him making songs anyone cared about. or was there a late career salvo I missed? Other than being on TV shows I never watched, the thing he did most recently that caught my eye was a few years ago yelling at Souljah Boy for not being a lyrical craftsman, real hip-hop is dead, cloud-shouting, etc etc

Not much chat about The Iceberg on here? I played this as Much as Power when I was a teenager driving round town. I used to know Peel The Caps Back by heart.

Mind telling me how you landed an interview? I requested one via Body Count's label (and I agree, the new album has some surprisingly great stuff) and was told he was totally unavailable...

OG is the best one

― smangerz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, October 13, 2013 8:27 PM

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, October 14, 2013 11:44 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Monday, October 14, 2013 07:07 (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The more I listen to the new Body Count the more I think it's their best one. They cover Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized" and it comes off like a metal version of "Funk Dat"; Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed is on one track; there's a salute-the-veterans track (you knew Ice-T was an Army Ranger, right?) where the portrayal of boot camp is like a mirror image of the portrayal of prison in "The Tower" and Ernie C plays the riff from Hendrix's "Machine Gun"; they do a metal version of "99 Problems"...it's really good.

I'd take body count, iceberg, maybe even Power over OG. Not sure why its the go-to really.

I agree - remember being disappointed when this came out. Felt like it had less life than the previous two. I wonder if the people who like OG best came to this one first - as i said upthread i had already given my heart to Iceberg and Power by the time this came out. Maybe I will trck this down and listen again - it is possible my ears were mistaken.

Ok I forgot about Mind Over Matter, New Jack Hustler etc...will have to do some sort of weekend investigation.

Iceberg is just way more fun and brisk, while just as musically diverse and political

There's only about 15 minutes difference in length, but with twice the tracks OG feels way longer

body count over OG???

The Iceberg is my fav.

nerd questions:

always been more curious about his NYC roots, also his DJ Afrika Islam was associated w/Zulu Nation....his appearance in Breakin', etc...I think that whole early period is pretty interesting...

wondering if he know Mixmaster Spade who was credited with mentored a lot of young west coast guys

Does he keep in touch with Everlast? Just funny that Ice-T was the one who put him on originally with the Rhyme Syndicate Comin' Through album and the original Everlast album

Divine Styler is such an eccentric dude, wonder how they met and if he was already starting to get on his weird existential hippy rap thing when he was in Rhyme Syndicate?

What was his relationship with NWA/Eazy like...seemed like they came and took what he had popularized and took it the next level, never much public beef but what was the dynamics like?

he also in recent years had been putting on Smoothe Da Hustler

:(
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.29484/title.ice-t-s-grandson-elyjah-marrow-arrested-for-murder/

Destroy: his acting on Law & Order

Wonder how many people started drinking iced tea thanks to this dude.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vCM4bZzchX0

jesus

Gallo is a dud. Saying this as a huge fan or buffalo 66 but the dudes wack