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During his appearance on The Breakfast Club podcast, Ice-T discussed the update of the song “Cop Killer,” a song critical of police violence in the 90s, amid the turbulent period of conflicts with ICE in Minneapolis.
The music star made the change during his performance at the Warped Tour in Los Angeles in July 2025.
“When I did it, it didn’t happen recently; it happened in L.A., when we played at Warped Tour,” Ice-T said about the music festival.
“When I was there, ICE was active there. I was in the middle of ICE operations. I’m in front of an L.A. crowd, and it just came up,” he remembered.
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“I didn’t know I was going to do it. The time came to play ‘Cop Killer,’ and my brain just said, ‘Make it ‘ICE Killer.’ But of course, when the girl [Renee Good] was killed, they brought that story back.”
Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent while trying to leave the street during an immigration agency operation on January 7.
Ice-T then talked about the real meaning behind the change in the lyrics of “Cop Killer.”
“You know, ‘ICE Killer,’ ‘Cop Killer,’ is really protest. I’m just protesting,” he said.
“As I said, I think we’re heading into some very ugly territory, and Black people have nothing to do with it. It’s bad. I think that the moment someone shoots an ICE agent, things are going to get really ugly,” he observed.
“Cop Killer” was released in 1992 by Ice-T’s former metal band Body Count, when Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush were competing for the presidency.
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