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Thirst for Ice-T quenched on new 'SVU'.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

| March 01, 2004 | Fienberg, Daniel | COPYRIGHT 2004 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Daniel Fienberg

"My adrenaline's pumpin'/I got my stereo bumpin'/I'm 'bout to kill me somethin'/A pig stopped me for nuthin.'"

Lines like that one, from Ice-T's 1992 Body Count song "Cop Killer," suggest why some people still have a difficult time accepting the gangsta rap pioneer as a cop despite all of his years on the beat of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." The former Tracy Morrow insists, though, that the men and women in blue have always had his back.

"Cops like me playing cops," Ice-T cackles. "They dig it. They ID with me, because all of the cops in the streets, they think they're tough, they think they're hardcore. ...

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