Tracy Lauren Marrow is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, record producer, and author. He co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced on his 1991 rap album O. G. : Original Gangster. Since 2000, he has portrayed NYPD DetectiveSergeant Odafin Tutuola on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2018, he began hosting the true crime documentary, In Ice Cold Blood, on the Oxygen cable channel. In 2020, In ice cold blood will begin its third season on the channel.
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Tracy Lauren Marrow is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, record producer, and author. He began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987. He co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced on his 1991 rap album O. G. : Original Gangster. Since 2000, he has portrayed NYPD DetectiveSergeant Odafin Tutuola on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2018, he began hosting the true crime documentary, In Ice Cold Blood, on the Oxygen cable channel. In 2020, In ice cold blood will begin its third season on the channel. Ice-T is the son of Solomon and Alice Marrow, and was born in Newark, New Jersey. His mother died of a heart attack when he was in third grade, and he was raised by his father for four years. For many years, AllMusic. com has stated that his parents died in an auto accident, but Ice-t has said it was actually he who had been in a car accident, and that it was decades later. Marrow’s first experience with illicit activity occurred after a bicycle that his father bought him for Christmas was stolen. He stole parts from bicycles and assembled \”three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes\” from the parts; his father either did not notice or never acknowledged this. During his time in high school, gangs became more prevalent in the Los Angeles school system.
Students who belonged to the Crenshaw Crips and Bloods attended the school, and fought in the hallways. He was never an actual gang member, but he stood out from his friends because he did not drink, smoke tobacco, or use alcohol. He is also known as Ice T, which is a nickname given to him by some of his friends, who enjoyed hearing him kick some of the more famous and violent gang members’ names. He has a son with model and actress Toni Garrn, and a daughter with model Toni Morrison. He also has a daughter, Toni Marie, who he met at the age of 13. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children, and has two step-daughters, who live in New York City with his mother and step-daughter, and one step-son, who lives in New Jersey with his father. He and his wife have a son, who is also called Ice T and has three step-children, both of whom live in the U.S. with their mother and father, respectively. He lives with his parents in a suburb of Los Angeles, California, and also lives with an aunt and her husband in View Park-Windsor Hills, an upper middle-class Black neighborhood in South Los Angeles. In 2010, Marrow began reading the novels of Iceberg Slim and Slim Slim, and memorized the excerpts and recited to his friends.
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