Like Ice-T's gangsta rap albums, Body Count's material focused on various social and political issues, with songs focusing on topics ranging from police brutality to drug abuse. really loved the music we were doing, and it showed.' Lyrical themes
You can't just get anybody on guitar and expect it to work. Ernie C stated that 'A lot of rappers want to be in a rock band, but it has to be done sincerely. You say the word rock, people say, 'Oh, but I like Jefferson Airplane, I like Fleetwood Mac - that's rock.' They don't want to use the word rock & roll to describe this song.' Body Count has since been credited for pioneering the rap metal genre popularized by groups such as Rage Against the Machine and Limp Bizkit, although Ice-T does not rap on any of the album's tracks. But, politically, they know by saying the word rap they can get a lot of people who think, 'Rap-black-rap-black-ghetto,' and don't like it. 'There is absolutely no way to listen to the song 'Cop Killer' and call it a rap record. Ice-T felt that politicians had intentionally referred to the song 'Cop Killer' as rap to provoke negative criticism. But where rap's core audience is presumably in the inner city, hard-core appeals mostly to suburbanites seeking more gritty thrills than they can get from Nintendo or the local mall.' ĭespite Ice-T's attempts to differentiate Body Count from his work in the hip hop genre, the press focused on the group's rap image. Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that with Body Count, Ice-T 'has recognized a kinship between his gangster raps and post-punk, hard-core rock, both of which break taboos to titillate fans.
Ice-T states, 'To us that was the devil what's more scary than some gangster with a gun pointed at you?' Ice-T defined the resulting mix of heavy metal and reality-based lyrics as 'a rock album with a rap mentality.' The album's musical style is primarily described as speed metal, thrash metal and heavy metal. However, Ice-T felt that basing his lyrics in reality would be scarier than the fantasy basis in Black Sabbath's lyrics the inner artwork depicts a man with a gun pointed at the viewer's face.
Ernie C and Ice-T conceived the album with the dark, ominous tone and Satanic lyrical themes of Black Sabbath in mind.
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