Ice-T Will Be Back With New Body Count Music In 2017

    Rapper-turned-rocker-turned-actor-turned-back-to-rocker Ice-T has announced a follow-up to Body Count’s 2014 album Manslaughter to be released in 2017.

    The Law and Order: Special Victims Unit actor, who is now 58, told Revolver Magazine that “We did [Manslaughter] to test the water to see if there was still a market for our music. And it worked. People were excited to see the band, so once we got that foothold we decided to go back out and hit ‘em with everything we’ve got.”

    Revolver have described the sonic theme of the upcoming album, titled Bloodlust, as “mid-paced metal songs” and “thrashers” but Ice-T always brings his Hip Hop influence to the vocals and lyrics of Body Count’s work.

    Previous hits such as “Talk Shit, Get Shot” exemplify the band’s style, though apparently fans can expect something new on next year’s record, including one “slow melodic rocker called This Is Why We Ride. 

    Speaking on his lyrical process, Ice-T explained “I like to start with hot metal tracks that you can listen to without a word on them and go, ‘Wow, that was just like fire!’ The music tells me what the song is about, and that’s when the words start coming to me. Then it’s up to me not to fuck it up.”

    If you like violence in your lyrics, Bloodlust, maybe unsurprisingly, could be the record for you. Asked what topics the album will cover, Ice-T told Revolver that there’d be political songs but also “gang-oriented” tracks and some horror-core too. “Bloodlust is part of the human makeup. Murder is about as normal as love. It’s in our nature to want to get violent and kill, but we know there are consequences. That’s why we like violent movies, video games and combat sports. It’s in our DNA. It’s what we are.”

    11 thoughts on “Ice-T Will Be Back With New Body Count Music In 2017

    1. Ice-T was never a good rapper stick with that TV show and raise that baby you have. I mean c’mon you’re damn near 60.

      1. And who are you to throw stones while you sittin’ in yo glass house?! Difference between you and Ice T is, the man is successful, got money and everybody know who he is. But who da fugg is you tho?! And who outside your immediate circle even give 2 shyt stains about WHO you are??? So stop passin’ public judgement on somebody who you AIN’T on the same level with…. makes you sounds stupid as hell.

    2. Don’t yall see the issue here? He knows that even though he’s 58, the rock & roll fans don’t care. He’s not gonna rap anymore because rap fans will call him old and all that bs.

    3. Whoever said ice t wasnt a good rapper need to get shot he was different go back a listen to his early catalog

    4. i saw a geico commercial with ice t sitting next to a lemonade stand. he should stay there and not make anymore music.

    5. I always liked Body Count (4th album kinda weak to me, but some songs were cool) , being I’m a MeTaL-Head from way back in early 80’s, but Hey, It’s My Opinion, Not Yours, plus didn’t mind some of his Rap’n/hip hop as somebody got me into Gangster stuff like N.W.A. (back in the days of the 2nd album).
      He said during making last Body Count cd that the Rap/hip hop scene was becoming b.s. , anyways, so he came back out with Manslaughter (Body Count), which I thought was Good, always funny was Body Count.

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