The gangsta rap icon has played NYPD detective Fin Tutuola connected the NBC transgression play for 25 years.
It volition astir apt travel arsenic nary astonishment that implicit the quarter-century that Ice-T has been portraying Sergeant Fin Tutuola connected Law & Order: Special Victims Unit he’s seen a batch of peculiar guests travel and spell connected the constabulary drama. So, erstwhile Billboard caught up with the rapper/actor connected the reddish carpet astatine the 77th yearly Emmy Awards connected Sunday nighttime (Sept. 14) and asked him to take a favourite representation from his record-setting 550-plus occurrence run, people the “You Played Yourself” MC leaned into his hip-hop roots.
“I truly enjoyed the occurrence [when] Ludacris came connected the show,” Ice-T said of the double-down from the “Get Back” rapper connected 2 antithetic episodes successful 2006 and 2007 erstwhile helium guest-starred arsenic Darius Parker, Tutuola’s troubled nephew. He besides gave props to OutKast’s Big Boi, who popped into play 10 successful 2008 arsenic a rapper named Gots Money who got tangled up successful a execution connected to an exotic carnal smuggling operation.
“Anytime a rapper would travel connected the amusement that was emotion and I had a bully clip moving with them,” Ice-T said successful the video you tin ticker successful afloat above.
Interviewer QTCinderella past deed Ice with a tougher question: if helium had a accidental to remake the show’s iconic “dun-dun” taxable music, what would it dependable like? “It would dependable similar ‘Rebel Without a Pause’ by Public Enemy,” Ice said, busting retired a spot of the “Yes, the rhythm, the rebel” archetypal verse.
After joining the constabulary procedural successful 2000 successful its 2nd year, Ice-T has racked up appearances successful much than 450 episodes, 2nd lone to OG formed subordinate Mariska “Olivia Benson” Hargitay, who has 574 eps connected her resumé, making her the longest-running primetime live-action quality successful TV history; Ice-T is conscionable down arsenic the longest-running antheral bid histrion successful American TV history.
Both were connected manus astatine Sunday’s Emmy Awards to wage tribute to the Law & Order universe, appearing alongside erstwhile SVU co-lead Christopher Meloni and Law & Order‘s S. Epatha Merkerson and Tony Goldwyn arsenic they presented the grant for champion play series.

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