Ice T’s “Cop Killer” was the post-LA riots rage surging onto wax like a busted dam. It caused a million coronaries among suburban parents, conservative blacks and Congress in the mid-1990s.
Ice-T stated of the song: “I’m singing in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality. I ain’t never killed no cop. I felt like it a lot of times. But I never did it. If you believe that I’m a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut,” in reference to Bowie’s song “Space Oddity.”
