LIVING COMFORTABLY NUMB
Ice-T talks classic rock, guns, collaborating with David Gilmour, and, of course, Body Count.
December 1, 2024
David Gilmour and Roger Waters may not agree on much, but they agree on Ice-T. Not only did the perpetually bickering Pink Floyd duo approve Body Count’s version of Floyd’s dope-addled 1979 dreamscape “Comfortably Numb,” but Gilmour decided he wanted to play on it. “You got two guys with different opinions about life, but they agree on my song,” Ice tells CREEM. “That’s pretty cool. ”
And who can blame them? As a rapper, actor, and provocateur, Ice-T is a renaissance man for our disgruntled age. As writer and performer of indelible movie themes “Colors” (from 1988’s Colors) and “New Jack Hustler” (from 1991’s