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Ice-T has insisted that “controversy” is not a way to make money. The 66-year-old rapper – whose real name is Tracy Lauren Marrow – caused a stir in 1992 when he and his band Body Count released the track ‘Cop Killer’ but while the furore created “a lot of buzz” when it was decided that it was all an attack on the police, he has insisted that the move was not particularly lucrative. Responding to a fan’s question in The Guardian, he said: “I never really questioned myself, but the heat came when they started sending bomb threats to [our record label at] Warner Bros. I threw the rock, that’s my…

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