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Support McCain?

Okay, I'm not well versed on this, and because I was surprised when I read that part of the article I checked the sources. One of them, simply states "details coming soon" and the other, which I'm assuming inspired the former, has a video, in which Ice-T joking says he's supporting McCain because if he supported Obama, he'd "mess up his campaign" so he's supporting McCain so he can "ruin his campaign instead". So, unless there's some missing source, I think that line should be changed or reworded... Irish♣Pearl 19:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

LL Cool J Beef?

In addition to a further discussion of his music, it'd be nice if some hip hop historian out there could add a section about his beef with LL Cool J. I know Ice dissed LL at the end of Pusherman (as he's selling music to the dope fiend, the dope fiend rejects only LL's music). LL responded with a full verse on Ice in his To Da Break of Dawn. Vslyke (talk) 19:33, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Minor rewrites in order to support a more NPOV

Removed the line from Political views: "He also has exposed misandry in the U.S., which is at high levels" due to not having a citation, without which it is clearly not a NPOV. Coradon (talk) 07:08, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Trial

To see what happens.Dumarest (talk) 00:01, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Name

This article goes back and forth between calling him by his legal surname vs. his stage name. His surname is not widely familiar, and he uses the stage name consistently, so I think he should be called Ice-T throughout, (see WP:SURNAME) but one way or the other, it needs to be consistent. (And the article could use not quite so many sentences that start with his name (whatever it is); pronouns are our friends.) -Jason A. Quest (talk) 13:02, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

12th anniversary

"The couple renewed their vows for their 12th anniversary in Las Vegas."

They couldn't have, not yet. They were married in December 2001 and it's only January 2013. I've deleted the sentence.Twistlethrop (talk) 14:08, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Citations completely aside, this article is mess

For starters, it appears that an 8th grader who read Ice-T's biography wrote this article (e.g., the chronological order, as well as the depth of knowledge regarding the subject matter is woefully lacking). Ryecatcher773 (talk) 06:31, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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WTF?

   Is there a narrative thread in the 2nd graph of the 1st section? (... where i find this unsourced info:)

... in 1992. Ice-T encountered controversy over his track "Cop Killer", which was perceived to glamorize killing police officers. Ice-T asked to be released from his contract with Warner Bros. Records, and his next solo album, Home Invasion, was released later in February 1993 through Priority Records. ...

If so, the question is whether those are connected by him switching bcz of WB having pushed him too far into posing as a bad boy, or by them offering him the chance to go away without a fuss bcz they didn't like his bad-boy marketing. And it's all the worse for the lack of sources.
--Jerzy•t 00:16, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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The article itself if very informative, yet a bit misleading.

It states that Ice-T's song "Six In The Mornin" was one of the first rap songs ever recorded. This is grossly untrue. There had been plenty of rap songs recorded by that point in time. Grandmaster Flash, Schooly D, Run DMC, even the Beastie Boys can lay claim to having rap songs released before Ice-T came on the scene. A more correct description would be to state that it was one of the first 'gangsta rap' songs ever recorded. Nobody had come out with songs describing gang life and criminal behaviour like Ice-T. This is why he is known as the 'Godfather of Gangsta Rap'.

== Time in the Army ==

I note that the brief material about his time in the Army is sourced only from Marrow's own memoir. Given the time when he served in the Army, the account of being jailed, escaping jail, going AWOL for a month, then returning to finish AIT seems more than a little far-fetched. In the period after the US withdrawal from Viet Nam, the Army routinely discharged soliders who got into trouble or went AWOL before completing training. Either there is a lot more to this story, or a lot less... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.128.142.45 (talk) 15:36, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

== Reference ==

The article refers to him inconsistently with his first name and with his last name. Which would be more appropriate here? Gprobins (talk) 18:44, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Last edited at 18:44, 2 August 2012 (UTC). Substituted at 20:32, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

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