Ice-T's Perverted Sex Cult Rock Band Is 'Gothic, Scary Stripper Music'

NEW YORK (Hip-Hop NY magazine) - Nabbing New York perverts on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for the past two years, Ice-T hasn't released an album since 1999's 7th Deadly Sin, but the veteran rapper has two new music projects in the works.

While SVU and Beyond Tough, a reality TV series about dangerous occupations he's hosting for TLC (premiering Sept. 18 at 10 p.m. ET) will keep him before the cameras, he's in the mixing stage on an album he's recording with rapper Smooth the Hustler.
"We put together a group called SMG - Sex, Money and Guns," says Ice-T, who enlisted Smooth's brother Trigger, Mark Live, Noreaga, and members of Mobb Deep for the "hardcore rap" record, which he's producing. "If I'm going to make another album I at least want to be competitive with the new cats," he says, but notes, "As a veteran, you're not expected to be new, you're expected to be classic."

Next up will be a rock band called Perverted Sex Cult, which he describes as "real dark, gothic, scary stripper music," a hybrid of Type O Negative, Nine Inch Nails, and Marilyn Manson. "It's me and Ernie C and some techno cats. We'll shop it or put it out ourselves," Ice-T says of both records, which he hopes to release in 2003.

Proud to be "somebody who blazed the trail" in rap, he now hopes to meet another challenge: directing his first independent film, based on one of several screenplays he's written. "I know I can do it. I want to find somebody foolish enough to give me a budget and let me go."