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Ice-T
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Political views
He has condemned the alleged involvement of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency and elsewhere[16]) on tracks such as "This One's for Me" and "Message to the Soldier", and in sections of his book.
He was criticized for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny in his lyrics, and this has deterred some people from supporting him. In The Ice Opinion, he claimed that he was a feminist insofar as he believed in equal pay for women and equal rights generally. He argued against the position that being a stripper or a model is demeaning to women by an analogy with a man who considers a gay man to be demeaning all men by his actions, arguing that if the latter feeling is untenable, the former is as well.
The track "Escape from the Killing Fields" expressed a difference in views from rappers like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D[/I] in 1994, Ice-T's music has contained much less political commentary than before.
In 1994, Ice-T wrote a book titled The Ice Opinion: Who Gives a Fuck?.[2] The purpose of the 199-page book was to respond to questions about his political beliefs, his life and the controversy surrounding his music. Having often voiced controversial statements about corruption, he goes into detail about his suspicions of police/CIA involvement in drug trafficking and of how certain businesses profit from prison-building. The ten chapters are: