Ice-T says that lyric change in the 1992 song "Cop Killer" to "ICE Killer," which has attracted a lot of attention, wasn't something he had planned before taking the mic. Onstage, more than 30 years later, when the time approached for him to perform the track, "My brain just said, 'Do ICE Killer,'" said Ice-T, whose actual name is Tracy Marrow. "You know, 'ICE Killer,' 'Cop Killer,' it's really protest," he said. "I think we're headed to some really ugly terrain," he said. Because if you're not educated enough to speak on it, you're going to end up caught out there."