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Ice-T, born Tracy Lauren Marrow on the 16th of February 1958, is an American rapper, actor, and heavy metal musician. He is known for pioneering gangsta rap with tracks like "6 in the Mornin'", co-founding the band Body Count, and portraying NYPD Detective Odafin Tutuola on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since 2000.
Body Count's song "Cop Killer" described a criminal seeking revenge against racist and brutal police officers, which drew condemnation from government officials, the National Rifle Association, and police advocacy groups. Both President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle denounced the song during the 1992 presidential election, and Time Warner Music refused to release Ice-T's next album because of the furor.
Ice-T has portrayed Detective, later Sergeant, Odafin "Fin" Tutuola on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since the year 2000, a tenure Deadline has described as making him the longest-running male series actor in American TV history.
Ice-T won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1991 for his appearance on Quincy Jones' "Back on the Block", a track shared with Jones, Ray Charles, and others. Body Count, his heavy metal band, won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021 for the song "Bum-Rush" from their album Carnivore.
Ice-T took his name from the novelist Iceberg Slim, whose books he memorized and recited to friends in high school. His friends would urge him to recite more passages "by Ice, T", and he later adopted Ice-T as a stage name in tribute to Iceberg Slim.
Ice-T released eight solo studio albums: Rhyme Pays (1987), Power (1988), The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say (1989), O.G. Original Gangster (1991), Home Invasion (1993), Ice-T VI: Return of the Real (1996), Seventh Deadly Sin (1999), and Gangsta Rap (2006). Power is his only album certified platinum by the RIAA.