Post by Finaddict on Nov 17, 2006 20:31:23 GMT -5
Has marriaged softened Ice??
good article courtesy of TheVoiceonline.com out of the United Kingdom
ICE T: Singing his own praises
ORIGINAL GANGSTA
BY AMINA TAYLOR
Veteran rapper ICE T: still going strong
Ice T might have been christened Tracy at birth, but there is nothing feminine about the veteran rapper before me. Dressed head to toe in black, Ice T might be pushing 50, but younger bucks would do well to pay due attention and not take their eye off the veteran star for even a second. T’s hazel eyes pick up everything and though he gives the impression that he is half asleep, the godfather of West Coast rap is just suffering from a little touring fatigue.
On hiatus from hit US drama series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit where he (ironically) plays a police officer, T is balancing several key roles on the afternoon we meet. In town to promote his latest endeavours, including hot new video game Scarface: The World Is Yours, you get the distinct impression that for Ice T he’s really been there, done that and then written a dope rap about it.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Tracy Marrow moved to California after both his parents died in a car accident. After a stint at Crenshaw high school where even he would be the first to admit he was more interested in the extra-curricular activities than the actual lessons, T joined the US army. Not just any branch of the army. No, T served as a US Army Ranger before leaving in 1981. Fresh out of army duties, he returned to his first love - rapping. 1982’s The Coldest Rap was the beginning of the rap’s ‘Ice age’ as the young T showed a flair for causing controversy even then. Ice may have wondered how he went from practically inventing a genre to tutoring rich kids in the art of rhyme in 20 years, but this rap game is a funny old business.
“I’ve been in the game over 20 years. I mean my dog Ice Cube, we still in the game and it’s not just hip-hop, but we diversified into doing other things. I have no bitterness or anger about anybody. I’ve taken hip-hop for the ride that very few people were taken on. I’ve ridden it all around the world three or four times, done it with rock n’ roll, done it with movies, now doing it with TV, I mean come on.”
You might expect him to bristle with righteous indignation about being seen as yesterday’s man by some of these ungrateful upstarts, but T has another perspective on that. “Sure, a rapper can come out and make a hot record, that’s one year of his life, he’s got to do that for 25 [years] to catch up with me. I just hope that they can take what we’ve done and maybe put a little twist on it, come up with something a little bit different, but one thing they can’t get, is somebody saying that it’s new. Some of my peers we can say ‘hey, we are original.’ Original is one word you can’t connect with a lot of these cats.”
So, he (rightly) isn’t shy about singing his own praises. Another thing that T has not been shy about is shouting from the heavens about his swimsuit model wife, Nicole ‘Coco’ Austin. Nearly half his age and with the kind of Hollywood body that has grown men thinking illicit thoughts, T admits it was a deep lust that grew into love very quickly.
In fact, the Barbie-proportioned blond is right next-door with T’s eldest son as Ice ‘handles business.’ The pair travels together and it is her whom the veteran entertainer credits with helping him keep his finances in order. When we meet, it is only a matter of weeks before the infamous nude shots of T and his wife draped over each other on his sleeve of his ninth album Gangster Rap appear. You can almost imagine the mirth in their eyes as they cooked up this sure-fire publicity stunt, secure in the knowledge that they go home together after the shoot ends.
“I love to be married, marriage is something that really kinda hits you in the back of the head. I think it’s best to be married when you don’t want to get married, when you’re really anti-it, so it has to work. I think that marriage comes in better in a man’s life later.”
The idea might seem ‘a little out there’ but it has worked for the couple. Mention the fact that a blond with a ‘perma-tan’ is not quite where you saw his martial future and T will set you straight.
“When you find somebody who you wanna covet? That’s when you know you’re in love. And me myself, I’m like the most non-racial cat - I’m too light to be mad at white people. Whatever you are. That’s cool with me. I never imagined that I would fall in love with Coco, but when I met her I thought ‘damn she fine, that’s hot’ but in a way she was so much like me. It was like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Come on, a white girl with big boobs? - I picked the skeleton key to the game. She pretty much can have it her way, but I said if you want money, I’m not the right guy. You need to be going for a grey-haired mo**********r, I’m not with that.”
The arrangement they have seems to work just fine and who can fail to get a little teary-eyed when the doyenne of rap reveals how he made the next move with his lady?
“Coco is like the negative of me. If I wasn’t a black man, I’d be a white woman. If she wasn’t a white woman, she’d be a black man like me talking s**t. I think we’re opposites but we’re the same in another world. She clicks with my boy, I click with her family. I had to get to a point in my life where I was ready you know. We’ve been married six years now and I’m happy. I ain’t cheating or none of that s**t, too. I’m real happy and I’ve been able to be more productive and get more focused. You cannot do this when chasing hos.”
• Scarface: The World is Yours and Gangsta Rap are out now
Published: 13 November 2006
Issue: 1244
good article courtesy of TheVoiceonline.com out of the United Kingdom
ICE T: Singing his own praises
ORIGINAL GANGSTA
BY AMINA TAYLOR
Veteran rapper ICE T: still going strong
Ice T might have been christened Tracy at birth, but there is nothing feminine about the veteran rapper before me. Dressed head to toe in black, Ice T might be pushing 50, but younger bucks would do well to pay due attention and not take their eye off the veteran star for even a second. T’s hazel eyes pick up everything and though he gives the impression that he is half asleep, the godfather of West Coast rap is just suffering from a little touring fatigue.
On hiatus from hit US drama series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit where he (ironically) plays a police officer, T is balancing several key roles on the afternoon we meet. In town to promote his latest endeavours, including hot new video game Scarface: The World Is Yours, you get the distinct impression that for Ice T he’s really been there, done that and then written a dope rap about it.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Tracy Marrow moved to California after both his parents died in a car accident. After a stint at Crenshaw high school where even he would be the first to admit he was more interested in the extra-curricular activities than the actual lessons, T joined the US army. Not just any branch of the army. No, T served as a US Army Ranger before leaving in 1981. Fresh out of army duties, he returned to his first love - rapping. 1982’s The Coldest Rap was the beginning of the rap’s ‘Ice age’ as the young T showed a flair for causing controversy even then. Ice may have wondered how he went from practically inventing a genre to tutoring rich kids in the art of rhyme in 20 years, but this rap game is a funny old business.
“I’ve been in the game over 20 years. I mean my dog Ice Cube, we still in the game and it’s not just hip-hop, but we diversified into doing other things. I have no bitterness or anger about anybody. I’ve taken hip-hop for the ride that very few people were taken on. I’ve ridden it all around the world three or four times, done it with rock n’ roll, done it with movies, now doing it with TV, I mean come on.”
You might expect him to bristle with righteous indignation about being seen as yesterday’s man by some of these ungrateful upstarts, but T has another perspective on that. “Sure, a rapper can come out and make a hot record, that’s one year of his life, he’s got to do that for 25 [years] to catch up with me. I just hope that they can take what we’ve done and maybe put a little twist on it, come up with something a little bit different, but one thing they can’t get, is somebody saying that it’s new. Some of my peers we can say ‘hey, we are original.’ Original is one word you can’t connect with a lot of these cats.”
So, he (rightly) isn’t shy about singing his own praises. Another thing that T has not been shy about is shouting from the heavens about his swimsuit model wife, Nicole ‘Coco’ Austin. Nearly half his age and with the kind of Hollywood body that has grown men thinking illicit thoughts, T admits it was a deep lust that grew into love very quickly.
In fact, the Barbie-proportioned blond is right next-door with T’s eldest son as Ice ‘handles business.’ The pair travels together and it is her whom the veteran entertainer credits with helping him keep his finances in order. When we meet, it is only a matter of weeks before the infamous nude shots of T and his wife draped over each other on his sleeve of his ninth album Gangster Rap appear. You can almost imagine the mirth in their eyes as they cooked up this sure-fire publicity stunt, secure in the knowledge that they go home together after the shoot ends.
“I love to be married, marriage is something that really kinda hits you in the back of the head. I think it’s best to be married when you don’t want to get married, when you’re really anti-it, so it has to work. I think that marriage comes in better in a man’s life later.”
The idea might seem ‘a little out there’ but it has worked for the couple. Mention the fact that a blond with a ‘perma-tan’ is not quite where you saw his martial future and T will set you straight.
“When you find somebody who you wanna covet? That’s when you know you’re in love. And me myself, I’m like the most non-racial cat - I’m too light to be mad at white people. Whatever you are. That’s cool with me. I never imagined that I would fall in love with Coco, but when I met her I thought ‘damn she fine, that’s hot’ but in a way she was so much like me. It was like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Come on, a white girl with big boobs? - I picked the skeleton key to the game. She pretty much can have it her way, but I said if you want money, I’m not the right guy. You need to be going for a grey-haired mo**********r, I’m not with that.”
The arrangement they have seems to work just fine and who can fail to get a little teary-eyed when the doyenne of rap reveals how he made the next move with his lady?
“Coco is like the negative of me. If I wasn’t a black man, I’d be a white woman. If she wasn’t a white woman, she’d be a black man like me talking s**t. I think we’re opposites but we’re the same in another world. She clicks with my boy, I click with her family. I had to get to a point in my life where I was ready you know. We’ve been married six years now and I’m happy. I ain’t cheating or none of that s**t, too. I’m real happy and I’ve been able to be more productive and get more focused. You cannot do this when chasing hos.”
• Scarface: The World is Yours and Gangsta Rap are out now
Published: 13 November 2006
Issue: 1244