{"id":441251,"date":"2026-01-31T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441251\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:34:11","slug":"the-albums-that-changed-ice-ts-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441251\/","title":{"rendered":"The albums that changed Ice-T\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ice-T<\/a> is a towering figure in the worlds of hip hop and metal. He made his name as part of the 80s rap scene, but a longstanding love of heavy music bubbled under the surface \u2013 something which eventually broke through with his groundbreaking (and sometimes controversial) metal band Body Count<\/a>. In 2014, Metal Hammer caught up with the Iceman to talk about the albums which made him the man he is today.<\/p>\n

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\"A\n<\/p>\n

The First Album I Bought<\/p>\n

Parliament \u2013 The Clones Of Doctor Funkenstein (1976)<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was in ninth grade and all that Parliament<\/a> and P-funk was the big thing. It was interesting getting into Parliament because they had a kind of rock thing going on. There were lots of guitars in it. Even though it was considered funk, it had a little rock vibe, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

You may like<\/p>\n

The Album I Wish I\u2019d Made <\/p>\n

Eric B & Rakim \u2013 Paid In Full (1987)<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery last one of those songs, I can sing with. When I heard rap for the first time, I was like \u2018Woah! This is me, this is something I can take to the next level.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Album That Reminds Me Of School <\/p>\n

Black Sabbath \u2013 Black Sabbath (1970)<\/p>\n

\u201cNow here\u2019s your rock record. I used to live with my cousin and he would always listen to rock radio \u2013 that\u2019s what we had on all the time. There was one album that I used to play over and over again that I heard from that station and that was the first Black Sabbath album<\/a>. And I\u2019ve used that record over and over in my music.\u201d<\/p>\n

The First Album I had Sex To <\/p>\n

The Ohio Players Honey (1975)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was back in high school so records like Love Rollercoaster were really huge. So it would have been The Ohio Players or Earth, Wind & Fire, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Album No One Would Believe I Own A Copy Of<\/p>\n

Enigma \u2013 The Cross Of Changes (1993)<\/p>\n

You may like<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, I don\u2019t think people would be that surprised by my record collection\u2026 hmm\u2026 maybe Enigma? It\u2019s that whale noise, \u2018WHAAAA WHAAA\u2019 kind of shit that you listen to when you\u2019re getting a massage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Slayer \u2013 Reign In Blood (1986)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first heard the term \u2018speed metal\u2019 I was like, \u2018I gotta hear this\u2019 and when I did, I was like, \u2018Oh, this shit is dope, man!\u2019 There\u2019s a hip hop connection with Reign In Blood<\/a>, actually. Rick Rubin produced it and the hook from [Public Enemy\u2019s] She Watch Channel Zero?! is from Angel Of Death.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Album With The Best Artwork<\/p>\n

Schoolly D \u2013 Schoolly D (1985)<\/p>\n

\u201cOh man, that\u2019s a tough one. I used to like Schoolly D\u2019s album covers. He had all these little hand-drawn cartoons. You had to look at it for ages to work it all out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schoolly D – P.S.K. ‘What Does It Mean’? – YouTube
\n\"Schoolly<\/p>\n

Watch On <\/a>
\nThe Album That Pisses My Wife Off The Most<\/p>\n

Mobb Deep \u2013 The Infamous (1995)<\/p>\n

\u201cAny Mobb Deep record. If I hear Survival Of The Fittest in the car I turn that shit up and sing along too loud! Ha ha ha! And then Coco looks over at me and gives me the eyes so I know I\u2019m in the shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Album That Makes Me Want To Fight <\/p>\n

Slayer \u2013 Seasons In The Abyss (1990)<\/p>\n

\u201cSeasons In The Abyss. Any good Slayer album makes you wanna fucking hurt someone real bad. They always have the most violent pits. Their riffs just bring out the aggression in people; I\u2019ve been stood on the side of the stage and when they come on, the fucking mixing desk moves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slayer – Seasons In The Abyss – YouTube
\n\"Slayer<\/p>\n

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\nThe Album I Want To Be Remembered For <\/p>\n

Ice-T \u2013 O.G. Original Gangster (1991)<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably Original Gangster. We brought that word O.G. into the vernacular and now everyone knows what it means. Now all of a sudden everything\u2019s O.G. this and O.G. that\u2026 And it\u2019s a real well-rounded and balanced album. It\u2019s got a lot of different sides of Ice-T on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally published in Metal Hammer issue 262 (September 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ice-T is a towering figure in the worlds of hip hop and metal. He made his name as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-441251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}