Orphaned young and raised on the streets, this young man became a music and TV icon

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of discipline: no alcohol, no drugs, just hustle and fear.

The Army gave him structure but not salvation; he still slipped into robberies that could have ended his life or locked him away forever. Instead, music cracked a door open.

Ice-T turned his firsthand knowledge of violence into raw, pioneering rap, then into acting roles that eerily mirrored continue reading …

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