->"''When we initially came out, my agenda was not to be a [[RapRock rap/rock]] band. My agenda was to redefine hardcore metal. If you listen to [[Music/BodyCountAlbum the first record]], I don't rap! I didn't want to go out there and perform with Music/{{Korn}}. I wanted to go out with Music/{{Slayer}}.''"
-->--'''[[Music/{{IceT}} Ice-T]]'''

->'''Interviewer:''' "''Ice, explain Body Count.''"
->'''Ice-T:''' "''Body Count is a band I put together just to let one of my best friends, Ernie C., play his guitar. He's always been playing guitar, we all went to Crenshaw High School together in South Central Los Angeles, and I had the idea: let's make a'' '''metal''' ''band, let's make a'' '''rock''' ''band, 'cause I had been to Europe, and I noticed that the kids would'' '''mosh''' ''off of'' '''hip-hop'''. ''So we put the band together, and I used the three bands that were my favorites at the time to set the tone. We used the impending doom of a group like Music/BlackSabbath, who pretty much'' '''invented''' ''metal; the punk sensibility of somebody like [[Music/SuicidalTendencies Suicidal]], who basically put that gangbanger style from Venice, California into the game; and the'' '''speed''' ''and the'' '''precision''' ''of'' '''Music/{{Slayer}}''', ''one of my favorite groups, and always will be.''"
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