Ice-T becomes the latest Hip-Hop icon to receive the Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star.
Ice-T aka O.G. original gangster now becomes the latest hip-hop celebrity to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. The 65-year-old received the accolade on Friday at the walk’s 2,747th star, at 7065 Hollywood Blvd. He was accompanied by his wife Coco and their 7-year-old daughter Chanel.
The rapper was also joined by “Law and Order: SVU” creator Dick Wolf, co-star Mariska Hargitay, and fellow rapper friend Chuck D. “Ice has appeared in more of my shows than anyone else on Earth. It goes back now 25 years,” said Wolf. “I’m now gonna show how old I am by saying, ‘Ice is the coolest guy I have ever met,’ and I’ve said that to him. I don’t know what the term for it is — ‘the bomb’? I don’t know.”
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“Your whole story runs so deep,” said Mariska of Ice-T’s legacy. “It runs deep particularly here in L.A., and it runs deep around the world. You are a rapper and an actor and an artist. And at a time when people overuse words without thinking and wearing out the meanings, you are indeed the real O.G.”
She continued: “You have lived a story that has shaped how you look at the world. A story that would have hardened many people beyond recognition. but instead it filled you with humanity, with humility, with grace and with oh-so-much wisdom. You are a devoted husband and a proud, proud, proud father, and you are taking your place here for all those reasons and for so many more.
“But to me, Ice, the reason you’re here, and the reason you have fame in my heart, is because you are the O.G. of friendship. You are my real deal, my true blue, authentic, unshakable friend, and I cannot tell you what that means to me.”
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“O.G., original gangster, original god, is where Ice-T has been all along,” said Chuck D. “He’s changed the world with words. I call him Berg as a nickname ‘cause he’s so cool that he could sink the Titanic and raise it again.”
In the end, it was Ice-T’s turn to pick the mic. “I never thought I would get a star — really? I mean, the way my life was going, it was what can we come up in Hollywood and steal,” he said. “We were really out here causing real problems. And this was just out of the question. Show business was just out of the question.”
He continued, “Last but not least, I want to thank the motherf**kin haters, ‘cause you really make me get up in the morning and be the best that I can be. All the naysayers, all the people that wanted to end my career, now I’m on the Walk of Fame… and that’s the motivation. You’ve got to let the haters motivate you.”
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“If it wasn’t for the haters, I definitely wouldn’t have pulled this off, I swear to God,” he added. “I’m gonna give you so much more to hate in the future.”
Ice-T recently looked back on his career spanning several decades in an interview with Variety, discussing how his success has transformed him into a worldwide celebrity. “When I started making records, I didn’t come into the music business thinking I would be a star,” he started. “I was just seeing if I could get a fan base. I didn’t want to be the best rapper. I just wanted to be mentioned among the greats: LL Cool J, Run-DMC. Getting any ‘star’ was way out of reach.”
The Rhyme Pays rapper now joins recent rap artists like the late Nipsey Hussle, DJ Khaled, Missy Elliott and 50 Cent to be honoured with the Walk Of Fame Star.
