{"id":121001,"date":"2017-08-18T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T08:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=121001"},"modified":"2017-08-17T21:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T19:08:32","slug":"too-old-to-die-young-ice-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/too-old-to-die-young-ice-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Old to Die Young: Ice T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9TL_rJDb64M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Too Old To Die Young is a short documentary series hosted by legendary publicist Bill Adler that showcases the lives of urban culture\u2019s most legendary characters. Today&#8217;s episode focuses on the world of Ice-T, one of the pioneers of gangster rap, and one of the most successful rapper-turned-actors till date. We spent a day in Ice&#8217;s home, getting an intimate look into his personal life.<\/p>\n<p>In the second episode of the new series, Bill Adler chills with Ice-T, the rapper, bandleader, actor, and filmmaker whose documentary film &#8216;Art of Rap&#8217; breaks down the craft and technique of rapping.<\/p>\n<p>While showing us his &#8220;small car collection,&#8221; Ice retells a conversation he had with a car dealer: &#8220;He says &#8216;You have everything you need. You have shoes, you have pants, you have your rent paid. Now life is about what you want.'&#8221; So now, Ice-T says, he&#8217;s been fucking around, buying shit he wants.<\/p>\n<p>Walking through the house Ice reminds us that he has accumulated six gold records, and remarks &#8220;this is when people had to actually physically go into the store and buy your record. It&#8217;s a big commitment.&#8221; Things have changed a lot now, but back when a 29 year-old Ice-T released his debut album, &#8216;Rhyme Pays,&#8217; you had to sell 500,000 records for those gold bones and extinct disks.<\/p>\n<p>As Coco, Ice-T&#8217;s wife of 15 years, brings us into the Coco Cave, her room full of shoes and accessories, Ice tells us how he watched Ozzy and Sharon Osborne&#8217;s relationship on TV. &#8220;Ozzy doesn&#8217;t seem like someone that&#8217;s going to pay a cable bill. Somebody&#8217;s got to hold that together. I need a chick like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a hustler and an on-screen cop, Ice-T clarifies that the rapper who made &#8220;Cop Killer&#8221; also plays characters on screen. &#8216;Law &#038; Order&#8217; creator Dick Wolf specifically asked him to play the cop character that the show needed. Seventeen years later the player is still playin&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"121002\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/too-old-to-die-young-ice-t\/unnamed-466\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-10.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Too Old to Die Young: Ice T\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-10.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-10.jpg?fit=640%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-121002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-10.jpg?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-10.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too Old To Die Young is a short documentary series hosted by legendary publicist Bill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-vtD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}