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Ice-T: ‘Anybody that thinks controversy is a way to make money, it’s not. You need lawyers!’
With a new Body Count album out next month, the hip-hop superstar turned actor answers your questions on Law & Order, the Cop Killer furore and working with ‘wild man’ Abel Ferrara
Photograph: Al Pereira/Getty Images On your debut Lollapalooza run you regularly performed Sly & the Family Stone’s Don’t Call Me N*****, Whitey with Jane’s Addiction. Do you have Charlton Heston pompously reciting Body Count lyrics – as he famously did at that Warner Bros shareholders meeting – as your ringtone? My first acting job I had to play a cop for New Jack City and I was dropping an album called OG Original Gangster – I thought it was career suicide, but people accepted it and none of my peers had anything bad to say.
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