Editing Gangsta rap (section)

===Ice-T's solo career===
[[Ice-T]] released one of the seminal albums of the genre, ''[[OG: Original Gangster]]'' in 1991. It also contained a song by his new [[thrash metal]] group [[Body Count (band)|Body Count]], who released a [[Body Count (album)|self-titled album]] in 1992. Particular controversy surrounded one of its songs "[[Cop Killer (song)|Cop Killer]]". The rock song was intended to speak from the viewpoint of a police target seeking revenge on racist, brutal cops. Ice-T's rock song gained controversy, with observers ranging from President [[George H.W Bush]] and his Vice President [[Dan Quayle]], the [[National Rifle Association of America]], police organizations across the nation to various police advocacy groups.<ref name="PhillipsLATimes">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck |author-link=Chuck Philips|title=Cover Story : 'Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining.' : A Q & A with Ice-T about rock, race and the "Cop Killer" furor|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-19-ca-4406-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 19, 1992|access-date=2014-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112203705/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-19/entertainment/ca-4406_1_cop-killer|archive-date=January 12, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Consequently, Time Warner Music refused to release Ice-T's upcoming album ''Home Invasion'' and dropped Ice-T from the label. Ice-T suggested that the furor over the song was an overreaction, telling journalist [[Chuck Philips]] "... they've done movies about nurse killers and teacher killers and student killers. Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that." In the same interview, Ice-T suggested to Philips that the misunderstanding of "Cop Killer", the misclassification of it as a rap song (rather than a rock song), and the attempts to censor it had racial overtones: "The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer."<ref name="PhillipsLATimes"/>

Ice-T's next album, ''[[Home Invasion (album)|Home Invasion]]'', was postponed as a result of the controversy, and was finally released in 1993. While it contained gangsta elements, it was his most [[political hip hop|political]] album to date. After a proposed censoring of the ''Home Invasion'' album cover art, he left [[Warner Bros. Records]]. Ice-T's subsequent releases went back to straightforward gangsta rap, but were not as popular as his earlier releases.