He asked to be released from his contract with Warner Bros. Ice-T encountered controversy over his track ' Cop Killer', the lyrics of which discussed killing police officers.
The band released their self-titled debut album in 1992. Original Gangster, on the track titled 'Body Count'. Ice-T co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced on his 1991 rap album O.G.
He also released several other albums that went gold. The following year, he founded the record label Rhyme $yndicate Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the 'Rhyme $yndicate') and released another album, Power, which would go platinum. He began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays-reportedly the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker. Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and producer.
