★★★★★
Ice-T's Greatest Hits: The Evidence is a modest, charming relic from when rappers bragged about going gold and "I die harder than Bruce Willis" was a credible boast. This record includes the Iceman's best cautionary street tales ("High Rollers," "Colors") and suggests values that today's chart-toppers could learn from. On the jailhouse rap "The Tower," Ice convincingly expresses compassion for a prisoner who is killed for being gay. Slim Shady, are you listenin'?
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
On Ice-T's fourth album, O.G. ? his first since his acting breakthrough as a cop in New Jack City ? we find him more defiant, angry, and clever than ever. He uses virtually all 24 tracks on the album to delve into the ugliness that lurks behind headlines on urban blight. Ice-T pushes his rage intoour faces and never breaks a sweat...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
With part-time roles as writer, broadcaster and actor to add to his full-time job as Scourge Of Conservative America, Ice-T's considerable merits as a hip hop musician frequently get overlooked. So 'The Evidence', a strong 17-track summation of his recording career, provides an infrequent opportunity to right this wrong...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2010-07-31
★★★★★
The music industry has a tendency to dehumanize the consumer and devalue our relationship to the very product they create. Human beings have feelings, "units sold" do not. A record that may change someone's life is just another barcode for SoundScan to tally up. The larger the corporation, the more twisted the scenario becomes...
- rapreviews.com
2010-04-10
★★★★★
These days, many people know Tracy Marrow better as Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola from the series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." Some may also recognize him from a series of movie roles, from the stunning and memorable ("New Jack City") to the horrid and forgettable ("Leprechaun in the Hood"). Before the lure of acting pulled him away from a successful and controversial rap career, Marrow was better known simply as Ice-T...
- rapreviews.com
2010-04-10
★★★★★
"This ain't R&B, This is gangsta rap Bitches get smacked, bustas get jacked Front if you want, you get laid on your back It's about guns and drugs, and hoes and clubs"Coming out of almost any other rapper's mouth those words would most likely get an eye roll and finger on the skip button, but Ice-T isn't just any other rapper...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Realer than Luke Skyywalker, glibber than Frank Zappa, able to scare small radio programmers with a single sound, this gangster's new artistic vocation is talking shit to the PMRC. Gratuitous f-words, obscene street rhymes, hilarious metal s&m, Jello Biafra recitations, the joke about boring into a motherfucker's skull with a cordless drill--all are designed to enrage censors while talking to the people live and direct. And as always, the street tales bite harder than fact. Fierce. Funny.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Album
No. 6 finds everyone's favorite OG addressing his perennial
themes (sex, violence, racism) once again. He still raps with
conviction, and he's as politically incorrect as ever (sample
sign-off: ''Peace. I'm out like Nicole''), but Ice-T has covered
this territory so often, he might as well have called VI: Return of the Real Regurgitation of the Rote. C
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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