Ice-T

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.

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Name (English)

Ice-T

Name (Japanese)

アイス-T

Reading

あいす-T

Born

February 16, 1958 (age 68)

Origin

Newark, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

rapper / actor / songwriter / producer / author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

High school

Crenshaw High School

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

• Official sitehttps://www.icet.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/icet/
• Xhttps://x.com/FINALLEVEL
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-T
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9-T
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309941

Tags

• New Jersey
• rapper
• actor
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.