C10 LIFE FEATURES THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2005 SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST GIGS Edited by Adam Wright
[email protected] This year’s festival boasts Marrow escape 200 bands, including Coldplay, who’ll take to the Green for gangsta rapper Stage (far left), and Ryan Adams, who’ll play the Field of Heaven Ice-T may have matured, but he hasn’t (left). PHOTOS: softened, he tells David Watkins TROY DUNKLEY/ KOICHI HANAFUSA If Ice-T’s real name was Dave, ‘Where’re these black kids as opposed to what it really is – coming from? They’re crazy! Tracy Marrow – chances are They’re gonna kill us!’ Now he wouldn’t have become such you’ve got 50 Cent doing it and a tough nut. As it was, he was everyone’s saying, ‘So what?’ forced to look after himself from It’s become saturated.” day one, standing up to those Ice-T, meanwhile, has who taunted him about his branched out into acting and has “girly” name. a book – The Ice Opinion – under He’s also the reason there’s his belt. All of which is enough such a thing as the “Parental to make you assume that the Advisory” sticker on CDs. Turning self-styled “Original Gangsta” has his attentions to music after a mellowed. Not so. stint in the army and a storied “If you’re a gangsta, then I career on the streets as a pimp don’t think you ever really mellow and hustler, Ice-T became out. You always keep that energy. something of a cult figure when You become more focused the song Cop Killer hit the streets maybe.