Ice-T’s new tour bus smells of pain relief rub and air freshener.
The 66-year-old rapper is hitting the road with his heavy metal band ‘Body Count’ in Europe throughout July and he says his touring vehicle’s smells show how he has given up his wilder days.
He told People: “My tour bus used to smell like weed, condoms and alcohol. Now it smells like Bengay and potpourri.”
Ice-T founded Body Count in the early 1990s, with the group infamous for its raunchy, violent lyrics.
He has kept the group going while playing Detective Fin Tutuola on ‘Law and Order: SVU’ for the last 25 seasons of the show.
But with the drama on a break from filming until the middle of July, Ice is focusing on his music.
When asked if his family will also be hitting the road alongside him, Ice said: “Yeah. Everybody goes. We have two tour buses. We have the family bus, with all the guys’ wives and kids. Our front bus is very run by the women.
“Then we have the jail bus, which is all the roadies and all the guys that are by themselves. That’s a bad bus.”
Ice – born Tracy Lauren Marrow – has daughter Chanel, eight, with his wife of 22 years Coco Austin, 45, as well as his girl LeTesha Marrow, 48, and son Tracy Marrow Jr, 32, from previous relationships.
Ice’s boy performs with Body Count under the name Lil’ Ice, and the rapper said about his earlier days of touring: “When you are young and you’re out there, and you’re basically f****** everything that moves, tour is a whole other animal.”
But he said about how his life on the road has changed with age: “When you get older and you’re married, you don’t want to be away from your family.
“You want your wife out there. So it changes. That’s why I always tell people if you’re meeting a new band – stay clear!”
“At the end of the show we’re going to our hotel rooms – (it’s) quiet, everything.
“The young guys are out there (because) they have never seen anything like it. “I ran around the world three or four times by myself, so I don’t need to be out there by myself anymore.”