Body Count ft Ice-T review – an explosive love letter to heavy metal
The seven-piece’s first London show in six years sees them tear through tributes to Slayer and the Exploited, while Ice-T’s son and daughter join him on stage
November 2022
Sunday with Ice-T: ‘Playing video games distracts me from real life’
The rapper and actor on gaming, horror films and the joy of a bowl of Cheerios
May 2021
Johnny Mnemonic review – Keanu test-drives early Matrix prototype
Keanu Reeves is in impeccably robotic form as a data courier on the run in this 1995 adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk story set in 2021
November 2015
Ice-T and Ron McCurdy review – a raging, inspired revival that would make Langston Hughes proud
The Q&A
Ice-T: 'What's my favourite smell? Money'
June 2015
Download festival 2015 review – Kiss, Muse and Slipknot rock out in the rain
Slipknot strengthened their bond with the festival crowd, Muse won over the metal fans and Marilyn Manson was almost back to his malevolent best
December 2014
English bulldogs' surge in popularity offset by high abandonment rate
The breed, which has seen a 323% rise in registrations across the US since 2003, are expensive and difficult to care for, which has led to surrenders
November 2014
Glen E Friedman's photographs from the births of hip-hop and hardcore punk – in pictures
‘We are Michael Brown’s family’: how rap and R&B stars responded to the Ferguson protest
October 2014
Rock horror show: pop stars in their Halloween costumes
From Jarvis in devil horns to Lily Allen in, er, the year’s most tasteless outfit, here’s how musicians like to celebrate Halloween
July 2014
30 minutes with …
Ice T: 'Body Count is 100% grindhouse over-the-top'
3 Jul 2014: The hardcore rap veteran has reconvened his metal project, Body Count and talks to Paul Lester about raising kids, annoying vegetarians and men turning soft
May 2014
The playlist
The Playlist: Metal
Four modern metal classics – plus a vintage one revisited for its 20th anniversary – make up our latest round-up of the best in heavy music
August 2013
From Rock's Backpages
NWA: 'Our raps are documentary. We don't take sides'
To mark 25 years since the release of Straight Outta Compton, NWA talk gangs, girls and guns in a classic interview from October 1989 – from the vaults of Rock's Backpages
December 2012
Trailer trash
Trailer Trash
Jason Solomons bemoans a computer-generated TV Christmas, and reveals his Trailer Trash top 10 for 2012
July 2012
Chuck D and Melle Mel on Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap - video
It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap – review
This week's new film events
June 2011
A history of R&B and hip-hop
Ice T helps pioneer gangsta rap on the west coast with his rapcore single Body Rock/ Killers
1984: Number 9 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop music
August 2010
Ice-T cleared following New York arrest
Rapper has unlicensed driving charges dismissed after prosecutors admitted there had been a clerical error
