American Songwriter

Listen to Rap-Metal Band Body Count’s New Cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” Featuring David Gilmour on Guitar

The track features Ice-T rapping new lyrics about the volatile state of the world over the song’s original melody. The band also has released a visualizer video for the song. It offers an animated ...
Los Angeles Times

Ice-T proves he’s still ‘Merciless’ on Body Count’s latest attack of gory hip-hop metal with a message

“You don’t know me, fool / You disown me, cool,” Ice-T snarls in the 1988 hip-hop gang treatise “Colors.” The Afrika Islam-produced cut, the title track from the film of the same name, boosted the ...
Rolling Stone

Watch Ice-T’s Body Count Showcase ‘Comfortably Numb’ on ‘Fallon’

Body Count stopped by The Tonight Show to perform their recent song, “Comfortably Numb,” an updated version of Pink Floyd‘s 1979 single. The track, off the group’s new LP Merciless, sees frontman ...
Rolling Stone

Ice-T and the Controversial History of Body Count’s ‘Cop Killer’: ‘Maybe You Should Be Scared’

When Ice-T released O.G. Original Gangster in 1991, the 33-year-old gangsta-rap superstar’s album was an instant hit and his biggest release to date. Deep in the track list was a quick-paced ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1992, Police in Texas Call for a Boycott of Time Warner After the Release of the Debut Album from Ice-T’s Band, Body Count

On this day (June 10) in 1992, the Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas called for a boycott of Warner Bros. Records and Time Warner. The label distributed Ice-T’s band Body Count’s debut ...