Birth name:
Tracy Marrow.
Date of birth, location:
16 February 1958, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
He has a wife named Darlene Ortiz and a son and a daughter. He grew up in South Central. He said a few lines on Chunky A's (Arsenio Hall) song "Dope, The Big Lie". The song appears on the Chunky A album "Large And In Charge". Hiphop artist, well known as the father of "gangsta" rap music, which spawned the careers of artists like N.W.A., 2Pac, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and the Geto Boys.
His recording "Cop Killer", with his group Body Count, was the subject of a national debate on the glorification of violence in the media. After the song was removed from the album "Body Count", he left Warner Brothers, who had released the album. (The track was replaced with an earlier recording, "Freedom of Speech [Just Watch What You Say]"). Chose his pseudonym in honor of author Iceberg Slim (pen name of Robert Maupin Beck III, 1918-1992), an ex-pimp turned author whose heavy-hitting novels detailed the hard life of the criminal underworld. Served in the U.S. Army (1979 - 1981) Ever since he was dropped from Time Warner, he has released all of his subsequent albums on his own label (Coroner Records). Was injured in a car accident in 1986, when his Porsche 914 was broadsided by another vehicle. The car accident would later serve as a turning point where Ice would focus his skills on rapping and producing albums.

Personal quotes:

(On the controvercy created by "Cop Killer): "When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you KNOW the shit has hit the fan!"
(Commenting on the 1992 Los Angeles riots): "Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls."


Actor, Film History:

Magic 7, The (2003) (TV)
Tracks (2002) .... Officer Brian Clark
"Beyond Tough" (2001) TV Series .... Host
Air Rage (2001) (V)
Crime Partners 2000 (2001)
Kept (2001) .... Jack Mosler
Stranded (2001/II)
Crossover (2001) (TV) .... Himself
Ablaze (2001) .... Albert Denning
Out Kold (2001) .... Goldie
Ticker (2001) .... Terrorist Commander
`R Xmas (2001) .... Kidnapper
Deadly Rhapsody (2001)
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) .... Hamilton
Gangland (2000) .... Officer Dunn
Guardian (2000) .... Max
It's Black Entertainment (2000) (TV) .... Himself
Lost Angeles (2000) .... Himself
Sanity, Aiken's Artifact (2000) (VG) (voice) .... Agent Nathaniel Cain
"I Love 1970's" (2000) TV Series .... Himself
Luck of the Draw (2000) .... Macneilly
Wrestlemania 2000 (2000) (V) .... Himself
Leprechaun in the Hood (2000) (V) .... Mack Daddy
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999) TV Series .... Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola (2000-)
Alternate, The (1999) .... Agent Williams
Disciples, The (1999) (TV) .... The Sensei
Heist, The (1999) .... C-Note
Judgment Day (1999) (V) .... Reese
Pimps Up, Ho's Down (1999) .... Himself
Point Doom (1999) .... Ringman
Sonic Impact (1999) .... Agent Taja
Stealth Fighter (1999) .... Owen Turner
Wrecking Crew, The (1999)
Corrupt (1999) .... Corrupt
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999) .... The Judge
Final Voyage (1999) .... Josef
Urban Menace (1999) .... Narrator
Exiled (1998) (TV) .... Seymour 'Kingston' Stockton
Crazy Six (1998) .... Raul
Below Utopia (1997) .... Jim
Deli, The (1997) .... Phil
"Players" (1997) TV Series .... Isaac 'Ice' Gregory
Mean Guns (1997) .... Vincent Moon
Rhyme & Reason (1997) .... Himself
Adult Video News Awards 1996 (1996) (V)
Frankenpenis (1996) (V)
Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie (1995) .... Himself
Johnny Mnemonic (1995) .... J-Bone
Tank Girl (1995) .... T-Saint
Legend of Dolemite, The (1994) .... Himself
Surviving the Game (1994) .... Jack Mason
Gift (1993) (V) .... Himself
Who's the Man? (1993) .... Nighttrain/Chauncey
CB4 (1993) .... Himself
1992 MTV Movie Awards (1992) (TV) .... Presenter
MTV Video Music Awards 1992 (1992) (TV) .... Himself (presenter)
Why Colors? (1992)
Trespass (1992) .... King James
Ricochet (1991) .... Odessa
Paul Rodriguez: Behind Bars (1991) (TV) .... Himself
New Jack City (1991) .... Scotty Appleton
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990) .... Himself
Rappin' (1985) (uncredited)
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) .... Rapper
Breakin' (1984) .... Rap Talker