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television On Booty Ice Loves Coco and the state of the American backside. By Troy Patterson Posted Thursday, June 16, 2011, at 5:26 PM ET Ice Loves Coco (E!, Sundays at 10:30 p.m. ET) is a new reality show. It being that the program is above average both as a confectionary comedy about domestic life and as an artifact of our delirious pop culture, its title bears parsing. "Ice" is an O.G. Known fully as Ice-T, he's the charismatic fellow born Tracy Marrow--a contemporary American artist working in a variety of media. As a veteran rapper, he's been a walking nightmare of a talking psychopath, a new jack hustler, and your pusher. As a rocker, he's most famous for playing a cop killer; as an actor, for playing a cop. As the author, with Douglas Century, of the recent Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption--From South Central to Hollywood, he dispenses apercus in the tradition of Epictetus, La Rochefoucauld, and Sun Tzu's Art of War, such as when defining a crucial difference between two underworld types: "A thug will hurt you bad. A gangster will have you hurt bad." To continue reading, click here. Troy Patterson is Slate's television critic. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Spitzer: It's Ridiculous To Say the GOP Candidates Are "Moderate." They're Radical. The Fascinating--and Sweet--Details Behind That Vancouver Riot Kiss Photo Dennis Kucinich Is Suing President Obama. Can Just Anyone Do That?	Advertisement
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