Body Count, the metal band fronted by hip-hop legend, actor, and director Ice-T, has released the official music video for “F**k What You Heard,” a blistering anthem (released on 7/19) that takes aim at the nation’s political landscape. With its unrelenting hook of “Democrips and Bloodpublicans,” Ice-T delivers a provocative critique from his independent perspective. “I have friends across the aisle,” Ice-T explains, “but my views are balanced and unapologetic.”
Through a seamless blend of footage, the music video highlights the chaotic and often brutal clashes that have come to characterize the current political climate of the U.S.
“F**k What You Heard,” is taken from Body Count‘s upcoming album, “Merciless”, the follow-up to “Carnivore”, which was released to critical acclaim in March 2020, just a week before COVID shut the entire world down.
Regarding how “Psychopath” came together, Ice-T told Consequence: “It started with the music. It sounds like what it’s like to be in a psychopath’s head. The track was psychotic, and it needed me to sing about something crazy.”
For Body Count, it’s been a history of being both respected and feared – a barbed-wire thread that stretches back to the band’s origins as a project between Ice-T and Crenshaw High friend, Ernie C. Their first shot fired, the song, “Body Count,” was a mission statement on Ice-T’s 1991 “O.G. – Original Gangster“. That’s the blueprint they’ve been running on for 35+ years.
They touched a nerve with their first, self-titled 1991 album and its divisive track, “Cop Killer,” which inspired hatred, fear, and paranoia, but also inspired generations of bands to follow. What they took from growing up with Black Sabbath and being inspired by fellow L.A. legends like Slayer and Suicidal Tendencies has only upped the ante for generations of homies and hardcore fans. Body Count’s current line-up includes surviving OG’s Ice, Ernie C. and Sean E Sean joined by bassist Vincent Price, drummer Will “Ill Will” Dorsey, Juan “Juan of the Dead” Garcia, and backing vocalist Little Ice.
