The Ice Opinion: Ice T
This volume by the rap performer who is notorious for his song "Cop Killer," which many allege advocates the murder of police officers, presents a compendium of Ice T's opinions on all manner of subjects, including education, sex, religion and drugs. Ice T on corruption: "more crime prevention has to occur within the ranks of the crime-prevention organizations than among the people on the street." On Bryant Gumbel: he is "the epitome of a black-skinned white person." Ice T also includes samples of his lyrics, which are printed across the bottom of the first 159 pages, an inventive innovation. As for the poetry, the diction is scatological, the rhymes simple and predictable, the message anti-establishment. The book, written with freelancer Siegmund, is an amalgam of the silly and the significant. Photos not seen by PW. 150,000 first printing, author tour.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.