America is clearly divided. Since the November 2016 election, it seems that reality has only been highlighted by the consequent protests, riots and civil uproar. Ice-T, who’s never one to shy away from voicing his opinion (no matter how controversial), founded Body Count in the early ’90s, a raw, in-your-face punk rock version of gangster rap. Its most contentious song, 1992’s “Cop Killer,” infuriated authoritative figures and rightfully so, but that was exactly the point.
Twenty-five years later, Ice is once again getting to the core of the issue with a new video for Body Count’s “No Lives Matter,” an alternative take on the debate between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter movements. It also serves as the first single from Body Count’s upcoming album, Bloodlust, which is scheduled for a March 17 release.
“It’s unfortunate that we even have to say ‘Black Lives Matter,”‘ Ice begins in the video’s monologue. “I mean if you go through history, nobody ever gave a fuck. I mean, you can kill black people in the street. Nobody goes to jail, nobody goes to prison, but when I say, ‘Black Lives Matter’ and you say, ‘All Lives Matter,’ that’s like if I was to say, ‘Gay Lives Matter’ and you say, ‘All Lives Matter’ or if I said, ‘Women’s Lives Matter’ and you say, ‘All Lives Matter,’ you’re diluting what I’m saying. You’re diluting the issue.
“But the truth of the matter is,” he continues, “they don’t really give a fuck about anybody if you break the shit all the way down to the low fucking dirty ass truth.”
“So far I’ve gotten nothing but good response,” Ice-T elaborates to HipHopDX. “I’m playing the honest angle on this. When it gets to the real bottom line, they don’t give a fuck about anybody. I start the record off by saying it’s unfortunate we have to say it and bring it up as a point. It’s a phrase of desperation. It’s not a phrase of power. It’s a phrase of despair. They’re diluting what you’re saying right now with ‘All Lives Matter.’ This is being sparked from a lot of black people being killed in a short period of time. I take it a step further. When you’re talking the base of government and power, we are all collateral damage at the end of the day.”
According to the Hip Hop vet, unity is the key to making things change. While people are distracted by Donald Trump’s accusatory tweets about Nordstrom, behind closed doors, much darker forces are at work.
“Their biggest fear is when we get on the same side of something,” he says. “They want to keep dividing us — black against the whites, woman against men. They don’t want people to line up and realize we’re all pretty much mad at the same shit. They keep trying to throw monkey wrenches in to make us fight each other so we’re not focused on what the problem is.
“And it’s bigger than the police,” he continues. “The song isn’t even about them. It’s just how the game is played. If they don’t feel you have money to fight, they’ll treat you like shit. That’s kind of how the world is. The world is based on, ‘If I can fuck over you, I will [laughs].’ What happened in the hood is really when regular kids started to get killed, we started to march, and a note went to police that people are going to make noise, and they can’t sweep it under the rug, so they decided, ‘Maybe we need to pull back on our behavior.’ Marching does help. When you don’t, they get away with it and no one is talking about it. It’s one of those things where I am glad people are least now raising some kind of response to anybody.”
The video for “No Lives Matter” is just the beginning. Body Count’s Bloodlust, the group’s sixth studio album and follow-up to 2014’s Manslaughter, comes with 10 more seething tracks that will presumably ignite a firestorm of comments, or has he puts it will “fuck your head up,” but at least people will be talking.
This shit is tough… didn’t know Ice T could still do it
Exactly! The only way “government” survives is to keep us divided!
Says the millionaire actor who plays a cop on TV, that’s from the notorious L.A. Hoover crop gang… GTFOH
Yeah, them Hoover crop gangs be handling those farm crops very well. Any pests that invade gets their exoskeletons peeled. Crop Gang!
Haha died
If you knew anything about L.A., idiot, they no longer call themselves crips (Hoover Criminals now). Your transvestite mother Tyga is from that neighborhood. So is Schoolby Q, who doesn’t suck, like your transvestite mom. So yes, Hoover crop gang. And they are actually parasite insects. LOL. Ice T is complaining about the extermination of them.
If this is the standard Bill Gates should shut the fuck up about malaria, and Donald Trump should have nothing to say about anything but real estate, beauty pageants and steaks.
Isn’t this guy a cop on TV? I’m confused. Is he afraid of shooting himself?
you are, indeed, hopelessly confused if you think an actor’s character on TV dictates their behavior or action elsewhere in their lives.
Did he say anything about his TV character dictating his life dumbass? All I read was “isn’t this guy a cop on tv?” Your reading in tô things to much. Like your mom did when all of those guys ejaculated in her, and she thought one of them would step up to be your father. 🙂
ALL LIVES DO MATTER AS WIPE
, won’t be watching anything else on TV involving this young man boycott BLM NBA NFL La Raza Ben & Jerry’s Kellogg’s
What about no lives matter unless all lives matter?
We will never have all lives matter . Our society has lost its moral compass . We want all lives to matter just we allow abortions of millions . Like Hillary said an unborn baby has no rights until its born .
Race baiting self segregating bullshit. Dividing the US populous and filling prisons with ignorant youth. Hilarious. I’m sure he gets pulled over all the time in his Ferrari driving around Hollywood Hills (irony).
^^^ didn’t actually listen to song. LOL. “Attention poor people of the world! Unite and dream of being rich!”
Nope. I listened to it. He didn’t say any of that you fucktard.
hella pepes and rooski trolls up in this thread. lames mildly shook by facts accusing Ice-T of hypocrisy when it’s obvious that poor people have never been able to speak for themselves. name *one* nationally recognized leader, spokesperson or artist who is poor. trolls don’t care what the actual content is, so their reactions are always the same.
You don’t have to be poor to not have a voice . The middle class doesn’t have a voice either . We get one opportunity to have a voice like the poor it’s called Election Day
Lemonade….read the sign.
Delicious!
Ice-T in a lemonade stand?
OH YEAH ICE…it feels like 1992 all over again…SYNDICATE 4 LIFE !!! RESPECT 1
That high Yellow mofo has been a cop on Law and Order longer than he ever was a cop killer. Stfu you sell out bitch.
Sellout y cuz he get paid to be on a cop show, u make no sense! Just hating to be hating or is it just impossible for u to have an intelligent thought?
Did he play a dirty cop or a cop who killed innocent people? You’re a stupid one.
It’s true though. Not every bodies life matters if they can’t prove it. If a person is a piece of shit why she would we care about them and their life? It’s like if you don’t like someone why would you care if they die? You know your not going to there funeral
Thats a truth most wont or dont care to recognize. As always
What an idiot
DX wrote the title of this article like were supposed to know who this old nigga is LMAO.
Wow you’re dumb.
Just check this real og talk racism is here to stay FUCK ALL YOU RACE HATER BICTHES KILL THE HATER
Ice Tee the OG always got it*
I really believe my homie Ice Maafuckin T. had a valid point. I’ve been following his music since he started his music career. Even met him a couple of times. Real down to earth guy. Go back and listen to his catalog of music. He’s alwayz gave us tha factz. I’ve alwayz appreciated tha knowledge he’s given when he rapz or speaks. It’z alwayz intelligent. And you’d have to be stupid not to understand what he’s saying or tha point being made. That’s my nigga !
This guy is a Hoover Crip OG with a convertible roof mansion that lives in the Hollywood Hills next to Keanu Reeves. He has a collection of cars, is married to a white pornstar, and is famous for playing a cop on TV. That is pretty much the opposite of the point this moron is trying to convey in his song. What a dumbass.
There is literally NOTHING dumb about him. I am sure he’s doing much better than you are in life. Jealous? If you do research on his upbringing, he didn’t have it easy, and obviously worked his ass off while you were in your mama’s basement eating Cheetos and playing video games with your bong. Grow up.
Ditto what PleaseDoBetter said. If you knew his history and read his interviews then you’d know better.
So when you were in school did you think your teacher was a sell out for schooling you then how can you say Ice T is a sell out he lived the street life and not he elevated it by working within the system
Ice-t might get more credibility if he didn’t record this album in between Geico Iced Tea-lemonade Pun commercials and Law and Order.
you don’t think a 55 year old man playing a cop on network TV has his finger on the pulse of youth culture?
If you read what he said in the article (and many other articles/interviews), you wouldn’t have said that. He’s one of the peeps that plays the game well and knows what’s up.
I’ve said this for years. Divide and label and slot people in. Keep them separate. Stop them from pooling resources because resources are power. It’s all a show. Don’t be fooled. Look away from where they are pointing, Great tune ‘Berg!
Ice talks about division.There was always some but Obama encouraged it and reveled in it
is Ice T still trying to pretend he’s black? he’s paler than beyonce. he plays video games and plays a cop on tv and is lighter skinned than snow tha product.
Wow. You should say that directly to him on his twitter.
cant wait to hear the album.
I’ve met him briefly.
Ice T is a Don, proper O.G and a respectful and very intelligent dude whilst keeping shit real.
Respect Due.
Zz.
Blacks kill each other in droves
All lives matter. Just not to one another. Being black and from Chicago. We are the only ones killing ourselves not whites. Also whites aren’t the ones that enslaved us it was our own people that did that. African warlords sold us to the whites and Spanish. Just the facts.
The whites bought them from African warlords are still guilty as hell. Are those African warlords responsible for the mistreatment that the whites did to the blacks for 400 years after the purchase. Also the whites and spanish are the same people dumb fck Spain is in Europe.
This is definitely a white dude ??
Pertaining to white men..”their dicks are little and they just can’t Fuck..so Fuck her, dad.”
– Ice T, Body count-self titled album
So why Don’t you shut your stupid fucking racist hypocritical mouth?
He’s talking about KKK members in this song. Are you saying all whites are KKK members?