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Born Dead

As rap prophet, street strategist and figurehead for the rage that ignites large masses of American youth, Ice-T is unassailable. Especially noteworthy is his work to form an alliance between the gangstas and headbangers, demographically distinct camps united by anger. Home Invasion laid the...

1994 RS: 2of 5 Stars

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1992

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Body Count began as a thrash-metal side project for West Coast gangsta rapper Ice-T, but briefly eclipsed his hip-hop albums in notoriety for the song "Cop Killer." The song was initially released on Body Count's self-titled debut, then deleted when the rapper's label, Warner Brothers, caved in to public pressure from, among others, President George Herbert Walker Bush, who took the song far too l...

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