Rapper Ice-T's album "Body Count" has gone platinum, he appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone, he got lead roles in two major movies, and now he has lectured at Stanford Law School.

Speaking about the Los Angeles riots, Ice-T said that "During the riot, I rolled into the neighborhood... I was chilling out, signing autographs. It was the most peaceful time I had ever been in South-Central Los Angeles. Brothers were dancing. Music was playing. It was a very great thing." Ice-T also expressed surprise that "Cop Killer," which includes lyrics such as "die, die, die, pig, die," caused such a commotion. "I thought everybody hated the police," he said.

Ice-T went on to boast "I've got my thumb on the pulse of 50,000 killers" and that he has founded a group of gang members in Los Angeles called Hands Across Watts—"basic killers," he called them, "getting ready to move on the police."

[Ed.: When dissident shareholders of Time Warner sought to force the company to hold a discussion of its artist's rap songs, including a song about violent rape, Time Warner's management argued to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which governs what information must be provided to shareholders, that even though the violent-rape song itself was sold to the general public, the lyrics were "inappropriate" for distribution to shareholders.]

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