Ice-T
A Visions and Voices Signature Event
Live via Zoom

Admission is free. 

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DESCRIPTION:
Don’t miss a live conversation and Q&A with Ice-T, the original embodiment of LA Hip-Hop and a cultural icon, who will discuss his life in the arts and on the streets with Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at USC Jody Armour.

As rap music’s original gangster, Ice-T wrote iconic songs such as “Six in the Mornin’” and “New Jack Hustler,” founded the Rhyme Syndicate record label, and released a string of groundbreaking West Coast rap records. He subsequently formed the controversial thrash metal band Body Count.

Ice-T’s notoriety in film and television might be even bigger. Following memorable roles in New Jack City, Ricochet, Trespass, and Johnny Mnemonic, he built a flourishing television career, and is currently starring in NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Odafin Tutuola for his twentieth season.

On the other side of the camera, Ice-T has directed Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, produced Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp, produced and starred in Who Shot Biggie and Tupac, and produced and hosted Ice Cold Murder for Oxygen. He has also written two autobiographies, The Ice Opinion and Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood, and two novels, Mirror Image and Kings of Vice.

Jody Armour is a widely published scholar and popular lecturer who studies the intersection of race, law, morality, psychology, politics, ordinary language philosophy, and the performing arts. His latest book, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law, looks at America’s criminal justice system through deeply interdisciplinary lenses.

After the discussion, the audience is invited to stay for a V&V Social on Toucan.events, a browser-based platform where we will meet up to chat, share, and connect!

Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative as part of USC Amplified. Co-sponsored by the Center for Black Cultural Student Affairs, the Black Student Assembly, Brothers Breaking B.R.E.A.D., and La CASA.

Photo: Steve Vaccariello