Ice-T Explains 'Pimp To Eat' Theft

07/13/2000 7:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(7/13/00, 7 a.m. ET) - Ice-T may be readying his greatest-hits collection, but the gangster rap pioneer also has to deal with the theft of an album he recorded with eccentric rapper Kool Keith. The master recordings of Pimp To Eat, which also features Silver The Navigator, Mark Moog, and Rex Rolan, were supposedly stolen during the riots that took place in Los Angeles after the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA Championship in June. But Ice-T told LAUNCH that he isn't really sure that the album is missing.

"I have nothing to do with that record. I laid the record. The record is in the hands of Rex Rolan and it's supposed to be handled," he said. "They did a deal and basically they were supposed to call me up when there was a show or there was a check. If the tapes are stolen or whatever, I don't know. They might have been stolen by aliens. It could be anything. I got the album, though, so it ain't that stolen. I don't know what they're talking about."

On a more positive note, Ice-T will release a greatest-hits album and will be featured on VH1's Behind The Music series in the coming months. Greatest Hits: The Evidence, will trace the history of the pioneering gangster rapper on 15 of his most notable songs, as well as on the new recording "Money, Power, Women." The album is scheduled for an August 8 release. Ice-T: Behind The Music will air in September on VH1.

-- Soren Baker, Los Angeles

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