Ice-T has had a fascinating career. He was a superstar rapper in the 1980s, but over the past two decades he has been best known for his role in Law & Order: SVU. The guy who once rapped about killing cops has made a second career out of playing a cop. Despite this, Ice-T still has a way with words. He got into a Twitter exchange with an angry SVU Fan on August 27. He didn’t hold back. Ice-T confronted the fan when they criticized Ice-T and the rest of the cast for making the show “woke.”
It all started innocently enough. Ice-T tweeted that he was returning to the set of SVU to start filming new episodes. A follower then asked if the show would go back to normal after what he felt was a lackluster season. “Did they write? SVU “Is this back to normal yet?” they asked. “It started to get woke.” Ice-T then responded with a pretty witty response. “What the f*** is woke?” he tweeted. “Lol like I give a f***.” Why he decided to censor the first f-bomb but not the second is beyond us, but it worked. A second user reinforced the “woke” allegations with a bizarre and specific explanation of what the term means.
Ice-T managed to insult John Wayne in his exchange
“Woke means tearing down my John Wayne statues,” the second user posited. “And forcing me to put up a Spider-Man fountain that sprays gay beer on my lawn and turns it into astroturf.” Ice-T had another hilarious response. “That sounds dope,” he tweeted back. “Fuck John Wayne.” Ice had fun poking fun at the guys in his replies, but he posted a third tweet clarifying his political stance. His stance is that he tries not to get involved in politics in the public space. “I stay out of political sh*t,” he explained. “Like I said… The Blue Vs The Red… To me that’s GangBangin.”
Ice-T has acknowledged the complications of playing a cop while criticizing law enforcement as a whole. He said diversity that he can understand why some fans consider him a hypocrite. “People have said that our TV shows are police propaganda,” he noted. “I understand that argument.” After noting that he is “the opposite” of a cop in real life, Ice-T explained: SVU Creator Dick Wolf hired him to play a cop who goes on strike to do the right thing. “If I play the cop we need,” the rapper noted, “I’m not going to have any problems with it.”
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Elias is a music writer at HotNewHipHop. He joined the site in 2024 and covers a wide range of topics including pop culture, film, sports, and of course hip hop. He posts work for HNHH Monday through Friday, especially when it comes to covering new albums and singles. His favorite artists are Andre 3000, MF Doom, Kanye West pre-808, and Tyler, The Creator. He loves LA hip hop, but not LA sports teams. The first album he ever bought was Big Willie Style by Will Smith, which he says is still a pretty good listen.
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