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Ice-T: Crip Rhymes, a Cop Killer, Thieving Jewels and Inventing Gangsta Rap

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Season 4: The Brian Wilson Story
BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Season 4: The Brian Wilson Story
Episode • Sep 15, 2020 • 42m
Ice-T stoked the wrath of the President of the United States, led the life of a successful jewel thief, ran with one of LA’s most notorious street gangs, the Crips, was a soldier in the US Army, before that an orphan and along the way, he invented gangsta rap. But it wouldn’t be rap music that would threaten his career - it would be hardcore music, particularly the song “Cop Killer” from his band, Body Count.
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