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...Marrow's poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life's jugular. Since his 1987 debut album, Rhyme Pays, Marrow -- who goes by his high school nickname of Ice-T -- has set off critics who accuse him of glorifying crime, homophobia, sexism and violence. His profanity-laced descriptions of gang life in a Los Angeles ghetto fostered a genre of hard-core black music known as "gangster rap." Tipper Gore of the Parents' Music Resource Center singled out Ice-T for the "vileness of his message...
...offered a small part in the dance movie Breakin' in 1984. "They said they'd pay me $500 a day. S---, I was spending that on sneakers," he laughs. But his street boys, according to Ice-T, wouldn't let him turn down the part. A few of the gang had already been taken down by the police or other gangs. "You got a chance," Ice-T recalls them saying. "White people like you, man. They've got their hand out; you should take it." His second big-screen appearance, as an undercover cop in last year's surprise...
Despite the latest truce, the gang problem is growing...
...wouldn't have been like my brother, and I don't want my little brother to be a gang member," Joseph said after his arraignment. "But I was born and raised in South Central, and gangs are all that I see. That's the only alternative I've got, and I have to take what comes. It's pitiful," he says. "A lot of people die, and it keeps going on. But it's like a ball rolling and rolling. There's no solution to it. There are just always going to be gangs...
...whom, according to Rock the Vote, cast a ballot in last February's primary. Future plans include a Sept. 15 TV special on voting featuring myriad famous faces, sponsored by youth- conscious Pepsi, and broadcast on the consciously hip Fox network, home to Bart Simpson and the trendy gang from Beverly Hills...