![]() ![]() “You know where that comes from?” Ice laughs. If you from Mars and you got a pussy, we will fuck you.’ We love Mexican girls, black girls, oriental girls, it really don’t matter. The song KKK Bitch also features the immortal lines ‘Body Count loves everybody. They’d wanna hang out, and we’d be like, ‘Well, what’s up with your boyfriend?’ ‘He doesn’t like black people.’ ‘How about your father?’ ‘Oh, he’s in the Klan.’ I’m like, ‘You know, it’s ironic that you guys are so excited to be with us but your boyfriend hates black people and your father’s in the Klan.’ A girl can be into the total opposite of what her man is into, and I’m like, ‘Wow! There’s a song here!’ It’s real. We toured all through the bible belt, and there’d be white girls backstage. ![]() There’s real shit out there that you should be dealing with, not getting offended about me saying a word. I mean, there are some things that are really offensive and are wrong, but sometimes I’d be like, ‘You know what? I’m just gonna fuck with them.’ I just think people are just too soft as a whole. I’m the kind of person that, if I know that I’ve offended you, and I know you’re easily offended, I’m gonna fuck with you more. “I think motherfuckers take life a little bit too seriously. “That’s the whole thing with Ice-T, man,” he says. The album has its share of angry and socially aware lyrics, but mostly it’s just a hoot. The furore that eventually surrounded Cop Killer overshadowed the fact that this was one seriously funny record.Īfter the heavily PC and po-faced 1980s, it was outrageous to hear Ice blame his dick for his indiscretions in Evil Dick ( ‘Evil dick likes warm, wet places/Evil dick don’t care about faces’), to hear the OTT revenge fantasy of KKK Bitch (in which Ice shags the daughter of a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard), or just revel in some quality swearing (opening track Body Count’s In The House consists of the title repeated over and over with Ice adding the occasional and hilarious ‘Yeah, muthafuckaaaaa!’ or ‘Awwwwww shiit!’). A weird mix of thrash, punk and doomy Sabbath-style riffing, it was sometimes hard to tell if it was a piss-take of the metal genre (“I was never out to make fun of it or anything,” Ice says today, “I was just like, ‘Yo, I’m gonna express myself’). The Body Count album came out in March 1992 to very little fanfare or controversy. It was like, ‘This shit is crazy! This shit is dope!’” We took them out, opening for us, cos I just knew that Zack was crazy. ![]() I mean, one of the first bands we took on tour with us was Rage Against The Machine. “I think it made it okay for black kids to do rock,” Ice offers, “but it also made it okay for white kids to add a little urban flavour to rock. The ‘90s saw an explosion in rap metal rock bands used DJs and samples lyrical focus switched from being about ‘girls, girls, girls’ and ‘unskinny bop-bop’s to darker, more street-wise matters. They won’t change overnight, but I think they’re getting better.”Īs a tactic, the Home Invasion worked. But what the fuck did I do?’ And in time, things’ll slowly change. "That’s the best way I felt to fight racism – to go to the white kids and say: ‘Hey, we really got a problem. I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about!’ I’m not trying to tell anybody what’s right or wrong, I’m just saying: ‘Take a good look at me – I might be like you.’ So then when dad comes home and says ‘n*****s’ or whatever, they defend them. “It’s like, if you’re my fan, I just want you to understand me. “That’s really what I’ve always been about,” he admits. Ice’s strategy – which he later dubbed ‘the Home Invasion’ – was to get his message to white youths. It wasn’t just about subverting metal or getting cheap laughs. And fortunately a lot of people understood it.” My whole thing was that when Body Count hits the stage we take you in to the hood we take you into our environment, our fears, our drama. "We could have dealt with sacrifices and all that shit, but let’s deal with real fear. 357 ? And that’s why in the Body Count album, when you open it up, all of sudden someone’s pointing a gun at ya. ![]() They’re just trying to scare the shit out of people, right? So we asked the question: what’s more scary than a fucking gun in your face? The Devil? Fuck that – how about a. I liked the energy and I liked the fact that it was hardcore: ‘This shit is crazy’. “I grew up in the days of Black Sabbath and Dio and all that kind of stuff,” Ice says. Jason Aalon Butler: Rock has so much in common with hip hop.The 10 best hip hop albums to own on vinyl. ![]()
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