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A lot of people don't realize how articulate Ice T is about politics and the world. I'm not saying that he comes off as someone with formal studies in many subjects, but he obviously takes the time to read up on history and politics. I've seen people online talk about him as if he is just some dumb rapper that make a song titled "Cop Killer" decades ago. Not talking about the OP, just others online.
A lot of people don't realize how articulate Ice T is about politics and the world. I'm not saying that he comes off as someone with formal studies in many subjects, but he obviously takes the time to read up on history and politics. I've seen people online talk about him as if he is just some dumb rapper that make a song titled "Cop Killer" decades ago. Not talking about the OP, just others online.
Yeah I think a lot of black people have conservative views, but for what ever reason but a lot of them identify as democrat.
A lot of people don't realize how articulate Ice T is about politics and the world. I'm not saying that he comes off as someone with formal studies in many subjects, but he obviously takes the time to read up on history and politics. I've seen people online talk about him as if he is just some dumb rapper that make a song titled "Cop Killer" decades ago. Not talking about the OP, just others online.
I know right. I never took him seriously until I saw an interview with him and was shocked... He is a smart guy. And I agree with him.
I wonder, if you stopped to listen, how many smart articulate blacks guys you disagreed with?
Maybe we could learn something if we listened to everyone without preconceived notions...
Oh please. Drop the race card. This has nothing to do with race. I find it hard to take rappers seriously in general because I can't stand rap music.. Including EMINEM and he's white.
Here's a little more info from Wiki. Check out the 2nd paragraph. There's a thread right now where citizens are outraged over the group listed. Also, the song was a protest song written from the perspective of someone tired of police brutality. Thanks for the history lesson. We seem to be going through a similar cycle.
"Cop Killer" is a song by American band Body Count, from its 1992 self-titled debut album. The lyrics are sung from the point of view of an individual who is outraged by police brutality and decides to take the law into his own hands by killing police officers. The song's words were written by Body Count's lead vocalist, Ice-T, while its music was written by the band's lead guitarist, Ernie C. Ice-T has referred to it as a "protest record."[2] The song was written in 1990, and was partially influenced by "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads.[3]
The song provoked much controversy and negative reactions from political figures such as then-President George H.W. Bush,[4] then-Vice President Dan Quayle[4] and Tipper Gore,[5] co-founder of Parents Music Resource Center. Others defended the song on the basis of the band's First Amendment rights. When Ice-T began to feel that the controversy over the song had eclipsed its musical merit, he chose to recall the album and re-release it without the inclusion of the song, which was given away as a free single.[1]"
Background
"Ice-T referred to "Cop Killer" as a "protest record,"[2] stating that the song is "[sung] in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality."[6] Ice-T has also credited the Talking Heads song "Psycho Killer" with partially inspiring the song.[3] "Cop Killer" was written in 1990, and had been performed live several times, including at the 1991 Lollapalooza tour, before it had been recorded in a studio.[7]
The recorded version mentions then-Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, and Rodney King, a black motorist whose beating by LAPD officers had been caught on videotape. Shortly after the release of Body Count, a jury acquitted the officers and riots broke out in South Central Los Angeles. Soon after the riots, the Dallas Police Association and the Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas (CLEAT) launched a campaign to force Warner Bros. Records to withdraw the album.[4]"
Since then, I'm sure Ice-T has befriended many police officers. He even plays one on t.v. He grew up in one of the worst neighborhoods in the world at the time and during America's bloodiest era as crack decimated black communities.
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