Body Count is the eponymous debut studio album by American crossover thrash band Body Count, released on March 10, 1992 by Sire Records. Ice-T co-wrote the album’s songs with lead guitarist Ernie C and performed as the band’s lead singer. The album’s material focuses on various social and political issues ranging from police brutality to drug abuse. It was voted the 31st best album of the year in The Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop critics poll.
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Body Count is the eponymous debut studio album by American crossover thrash band Body Count, released on March 10, 1992 by Sire Records. Ice-T co-wrote the album’s songs with lead guitarist Ernie C and performed as the band’s lead singer. The album’s material focuses on various social and political issues ranging from police brutality to drug abuse. It was voted the 31st best album of the year in The Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop critics poll, and is believed to have helped pave the way for the mainstream success of the rap metal genre, although the album itself does not feature rapping in any of its songs. Body Count is well known for the inclusion of the controversial song \”Cop Killer\”, which was the subject of much criticism from various political figures, although many defended the song on the basis of the group’s right to freedom of speech. The band’s single, \”There Goes the Neighborhood, was released as a single, while the single featured in the film Universal Soldier, while a single from the album featured in Universal Soldier’s Universal Soldier was featured in a film called Universal Soldier. The group made its first album appearance on Ice-t’s 1991 solo album O. G. Original Gangster. The song ‘Body Count’ was preceded by a staged interview in which the performer referred to the group as a \”black hardcore band,\” stating that he didn’t look at it as rock, R & B, or all that kind of stuff.
The original line-up consisted of Mooseman on bass, Beatmaster V on drums and D-Roc on rhythm guitar. Aside from Ice- T and Ernie. C, the original line up consisted of Beatmaster. V, Mooseman, D-Coc, and D.Roc. Ice T states that Body Count was intentionally different from his solo hip hop albums in that ‘An Ice T album has intelligence, and at times it has ignorance. Sometimes it has anger, sometimes it has questions. But Body count was intended to reflect straight anger. It was supposed to be the voice of the angry brother, without answers. ‘If you took a kid and you put him in jail with a microphone and asked him how he feels, you’d get Body Count.’You wouldn’t get intelligence or compassion or compassion. You’d get raw anger or that. You’d either get that from the police or from the school or from your friends. I do what I like and I happen to like rock ‘n’ roll, and I feel sorry for anybody who only listens to one form of music. I just look at It as music.’ I don’t look to it as Rock, R and B, I just like rock ‘n’ roll. I don’t look to be a rock ’n‘ roll singer. I’m just a guy who likes to play music.
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