Yeah.

It would be Grandmaster Flash and them in the parks doing it on cassette tapes before they were making records.

Then there were a few small, small records.

But Rapper's Delight was the first national hip hop hit.

And hip hop is a very intoxicating culture because it incorporates four things.

It incorporates breakdancing, which Street dancing has been all over the world forever.

So people are like, wow, I love that kind of dancing.

Yep.

Wow.

And I had a nice little tune called Cop Killer.

"Cop killer, it's better you than me.

Cop killer, fuck police brutality." And it's about a guy who went at the cops.

Now, the way the song comes, I'm in the studio with my homie, Beatmaster V, who passed, and I'm singing this song by Talking Heads called Psycho Killer.

"Psycho killer, qu- qu- que-" I'm singing.

He goes, "We need a cop killer." Just like you would've said, "Hey, Iceman, we..." I'm like, "Why?" "Uh, cops did this, and Ramparts out of pocket, and they taking off on niggas, and they killed the homie." So I start thinking.

Fire

How did you dodge that?

It's easy, you just don't join up.

See, I'm from New Jersey.

I was born in Newark, New Jersey.

And my mother died when I was in the third grade.

My father died when I was in the seventh grade.

So I was orphaned and I was sent to LA when I was in the seventh grade.

But what advice would you give us?

Whoo.

Mm.

[upbeat music] I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I see no competition.

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I see no competition.

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I see no competition.

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I see no competition.

Took a look out my window, what did I see? Bunch of whack-ass niggas that could never be me.

You gonna like this part, Joe.

So what advice would you give to young up-and-coming rappers in the game or anybody looking to either break into the music, TV? What are some of the things that if you can go back and do it over and refine it and lock it in, what would be some of the things you would do or, you know, lace someone's tennis shoes up with this shit?

Well, first off, you've got to realize you're about to start making legit money.

If you do make legit money, you're going to need an accountant.

You're going to need somebody because you will have to pay taxes.

When you're making money off the street, you ain't paying no taxes.

Once you start getting checks or a paper trail, you could get a million dollars and you could owe $450,000 of that to the IRS if you make it in a short period of time.

So I would try to get somebody to work with you in accounting, maybe to help collect your checks and bring it in.

sure speaking of home got a question uh becoming a husband and the father how has that changed you and how do you make all of this work as a husband and the father and being the iced tea and who are you off the camera

That's right.

[laughs] So it's like, you know, it's like, okay, I could put this bullet in, let me put this hollow tip in right now.

You know? So that's it.

It's fun.

But, uh, I remember when Viagra first came out, I don't know how we got on this subject.

We were young and we bought some.

And, uh, I was like, "What the fuck does this shit do?" So my boy read the bottle, and I'll never forget, my boy read it, he goes, "Yo, it says this shit can kill you.

My question is, do you have leverage in negotiations, or do you-

There's no medals for

that in this world, is there? I mean, I was active as fuck.

I was out there.

I wasn't selling drugs.

We was robbing.

We was hitting jewelry licks and we was getting money.

And once I made the decision...

My question is, do you have leverage in negotiations or do

[laughs]

You know, when, when you start breaking down pennies, I'm like, "Yo, this is a bad game." So a lot of ki- a lot of people are independent right now, so we're going back to old school.

You go to IceT.com, direct digital download.

You know what I'm saying? I don't need a ...

To get a million dollars, if ...

A million dollars in the record business isn't a million dollars.

It's a million dollars after taxes, after paying agents, managers and all that.

Also, I know you'd gotten into, uh, streaming now.

Mm.

She actually has a season more than me, so that's 22 more than me.

I came in the first episode of the second season.

And, uh, yeah, the only way you can have that record is you have to be on a show that's on that long, to be in a continuous role.

So it's, it's cool, but, you know, w- That's my day one.

That's my number one thing, and then I, I have to work things around it.

So a lot of times people will want me to do stuff.

For sure.

[laughs]

I'm like... [laughs] Yeah.

As, as a man, we have to learn to deal with your emotions.

You have to understand when you're dealing with an emotional situation.

So a lot of times, like, if something triggers me emotionally, I'm just like, "Chill." Mm.

"Chill.

Just let me cycle this." Yeah.

A lot.

Mm

... to actually have lines.

You know, Krush Groove, it came out, but everybody was acting as rappers.

But when I s- even as, in Breaking, I was play- I was called featured rap talker.

But when I did New Jack City, that was the first time somebody took that risk.

And, um, I'm not Will Smith, but I, I'm still acting.

What made you learn that? Was it the Soulja Boy situation?

Yeah.