Ice T — American Musician born on February 16, 1958,

Tracy Lauren Marrow, better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays, the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker. The next year, he founded the record label Rhyme $yndicate Records and released another album, Power... (wikipedia)

Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.