Ice-T & Body Count Modernize "Cop Killer" Track To "ICE Killer

Ice-T says his decision to rechristen the Body Count track “Cop Killer” as “ICE Killer” was a spur-of-the-moment choice, warning that the U.S. is headed toward “some very ugly terrain.” During an appearance on The Breakfast Club this week, the Body Count frontman and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actor was asked about the timely update, which he first put in motion during a Warped Tour anniversary show last year. In the months since, ICE agents have fatally shot 37-year-old Renée Good and Alex Pretti, both of whom were recently mentioned by name in the Bruce Springsteen protest track “Streets of Minneapolis.” As Ice-T pointed out, the Body Count performance recently resurfaced in the wake of Good’s killing. “When I did that, that did’t happen just recently,” he said, as seen below. “That happened when we played in L.A. at the Warped Tour. When I was there, ICE was active out there. So it’s like, I’m in the midst of ICE raids and stuff like that and I’m in front of an L.A. audience. It just came out. I didn’t know I was gon’ do it.” Ice-T continued: “It’s time to play ‘Cop Killer,’ and then my brain just said, do ‘ICE Killer.’ And it went over. But, of course, when the girl got killed, they bring that press to the front. They had me in the news fighting with the police. It was two years old. When a cop pulled me over and I got a ticket, it made it to the news. That was two years old. So anything you see on the internet, you don’t really know how it’s being sent to you.

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