Ice-T Quits Music Career Because of THIS? 'Hip-Hop Has Changed!'

Ice-T has no plans of reviving his music career-especially with how the hip-hop game is being played nowadays.

During his interview with Variety, the elephant in the room was addressed: why does Ice-T no longer release any new music?

"Hip-hop changed," the rapper-turned-actor simply replied. "The music got goofy to me. The kids started looking weird. It all turned into something I wasn't comfortable with."

Ice-T, born Tracy Lauren Marrow, began his music career in the 1980s as an underground rapper before he went mainstream.

There's a giant difference between the time he was actively releasing music and now, but Ice-T revealed that way before the hip-hop game dramatically and drastically changed, he already felt it.

"There was a point where I was selling tons of records, then it cooled off. I felt a certain way," he explained.

"Then I realized Public Enemy, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, and Wu-Tang Clan weren't selling records, either. There was a paradigm shift."

Instead of shifting along with the new sound and culture of hip-hop, he decided to try his luck in a different industry altogether.

In hindsight, it seems like the move proved to be beneficial to the rapper, as he just earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, reports say.

"These kids got softer, and soft is not something I'm able to give audiences," he remarked.

Despite his success and now reluctance to return to his music career, Ice-T revealed that he actually wanted nothing to do with acting in the first place.

"I never wanted to act. I was ready to turn it down because they wanted me to play a cop, at the same time I'm putting out an album called 'OG,'" the "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" star said.

"Are you kidding me? Play a cop? But my friends were like 'Motherf**ker, if you turn this down, you're a real-life sucker.'

"So, I did it. I didn't know I was going to be successful at it."

According to the Daily Mail UK, aside from his decades-long stint in "Law and Order: Special Victims Unite," Ice-T has been in several other movies like 1991's "New JackCity," "Ricochet," 1994's "Surviving the Game," and 2001's "3000 Miles to Graceland."

It seems like Ice-T is done with making and releasing music for good, although that doesn't mean that he is no longer relevant in the game.

According to reports, the rapper still has the "Ice-T: Art of Rap" shows which became his legacy in hip-hop.

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