His ''thrash metal'' band, Body Count, married rap with heavy metal rock on its self-titled album. My forte is expressing the dark side of Ice. The Stephen Kingish side. I'm not good at making party records. On Oct. 4 it will release his new album, ''7th Deadly SIN,'' in collaboration with Roadrunner Records.
Anger is part of the game.
You used to sign with a major because you needed major money to go into a professional studio. Now you can record a professional-quality album on these small computers in a home studio. And pretty soon you're not going to need the majors to distribute it either. We licensed the album to Roadrunner to put the record in the stores and collect the money. Convincingly fierce, with a way with words, the credibly hard-boiled former Crip Ice T was a 1990s Hollywood gangsta from central casting.