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{{quote|''"I've been dogged out by cops, shackled and socked. Paid my dues to the streets, took my hard knocks"''|[[Ice-T]], "Squeeze Thethe Trigger"}}

'''Tracy Marrow''' (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name [['''Ice-T]]''', is a Grammy Award and NAACP Image Award-winning American rapper, actor and author. He is credited with helping in pioneering gangsta rap in the late 1980s. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayal of NYPD Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola on the NBC police drama ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]''. Although one of West Coast hip hop's leading figures, Marrow, was actually born in urban Newark, New Jersey, and christened Tracy by his father. When he was a child, he moved from his native Newark to the upscale community of Summit, New Jersey. His mother died of a heart attack when he was in third grade and his father died of a heart attack four years later.