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My Take
Ice-T is one of pop culture's great contradictions, and I mean that as the highest compliment. He helped invent gangsta rap, fronted a metal band, then spent decades playing a detective on network television, and somehow none of it feels inconsistent, because the through-line is a sharp, unsentimental intelligence about how America actually works. His Grammy and NAACP honors only hint at the range. What I respect most is his longevity: he adapted to every era without ever sounding like he was chasing one. Few artists have narrated street life and then outlived its mythology so gracefully.
Overview
Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), known professionally as Ice-T (or Ice T), is an American rapper and actor. He is active in both hip-hop and heavy metal. Ice-T 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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ice-T
- Name (Japanese)
- アイス-T
- Reading
- あいす-T
- Born
- February 16, 1958 (age 68)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Dog
- Origin
- Newark, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- rapper / actor / songwriter / producer / author
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Crenshaw High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1990 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
- 1996 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
- 2002 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.icet.com
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/icet/
- Xhttps://x.com/FINALLEVEL
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9-T
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.