-Our first guest stars in th
very popular television series
"Law & Order: SVU."
He's also in a new movie
called "Equal Standard,"
which is streaming now,
and his band Body Count
has re-released its single
"No Lives Matter."
Here is the one and only Ice-T
Oh, look who it is! Oh, my
It's so good to see you.
Look at -- Oh, my gosh.
Hi, Chanel. Hi!
Do you remember me?
Oh, no. Look at how cute.
Oh, my goodness.
You are beautiful.
-She said hi, Jimmy.
-How old are you?
-Four.
-Four years old!
Oh, my gosh!
I remember you
when you were a baby,
when your mom came here
to the show.
I didn't hold you,
but I saw you.
Your mom was holding you.
Oh, my gosh. You're beautiful.
A little princess.
-Look, right before this
started, she tells me,
"I got something to do."
-[ Laughs ]
-You got something to do?
Are you gonna sit with Daddy
-[ Laughs ]
-Okay, "I got something to do.
-[ Laughs ]
-Hey, it's the girl, man.
-I have a feeling
we'll see her again.
-Yeah, yeah.
-Thank you so much
for coming on the show.
It's so good to see your face.
Where were you when everything
got shut down?
Were you in New York?
-I was actually on
the set of "Law & Order."
We were filming,
and they had filmed one scen
that I wasn't in,
and I was getting ready
and I was in my wardrobe.
And then they just came in
and said,
"They're pulling the plug.
And I'm like, "Wow."
And I think this whole thing
kind of happened to everybod
the same.
Everybody was like,
"Is it that serious?"
Kind of hit us like a wave
and it just kept coming, so...
-And then I know
your father-in-law
came down with COVID.
I'm so sorry to hear about that.
Is that where you are now?
-Yes.
Well, usually -- we have
a family home in Arizona.
That's where Coco's mother
father, sisters,
all the nieces and nephews
live here.
So usually when we have hiatus
I leave New York.
I come to Arizona.
I'm in reach of my friends
in California.
This is kind of like
where we post up.
And we stayed in New York
for 2 1/2 -- about 2 months.
And the numbers were just
spiking -- 800 people a day,
you know, 900 people a day
And I was like, "You know what
We're gonna try to go to Arizona
anyway."
So we came to Arizona,
thinking it was safer.
-Whew.
-And it spiked here.
And when we got to Arizona
nobody was wearing masks.
They were walking around,
and I'm coming from New York
so I'm, like, already terrified.
I'm like,
"Yo, this is not okay."
-Yeah.
-And I hate to say it,
but Coco's dad is
a Harley-Davidson-riding,
no-mask type of dude, you know
-Yep.
-And put him on his back.
He stayed home for nine days
with COVID.
By the time he went to
the hospital,
he had pneumonia in two lungs.
-Oh, my God.
-They held him for about
three days in the ICU.
Then they call you and they make
those next-of-kin calls,
where we --
That's when it's scary.
Like, we might have to put him
on the ventilator.
And it took him a month
to make it out of the hospital
God bless him,
but now he's home,
but his lungs are damaged
indefinitely.
But COVID attacks your lungs
and it can really leave
your lungs, you know, ruined
-Oh, my gosh.
-Thank you to everybody who --
I mean, I put it on social media
because there are
still nonbelievers,
and people look at me like
"Oh, Ice-T, you're tough."
I'm like -- One guy wrote me
and said, "You seem scared."
I'm like, "Yeah, I'm scared of
your contaminated breath, okay
Is there a problem with that?"
-"I am scared."
-Of course --
I don't want to die.
I've made it through so much
in my life.
I don't want to die
because of this,
and especially with
a new daughter,
so, yeah, I'm aware and I'
concerned and I'm cautious
You want to call that scared
Call it scared.
-Are more people wearing masks
now in Arizona?
-Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
-Good.
-See, what happens is
when it's just announced,
nobody reacts, but then when you
get these numbers up,
more people know people that are
in the hospital.
And that triggers the mask
quicker than anything else
It's easy to say,
"Oh, I can't catch it."
But once you know people -
Jimmy, I know about eight people
that have actually passed away
-Yeah.
-So I mean, I don't have -
I don't need much more proof
than that
to know I don't want to play
with it, you know?
So this has really taken a toll.
-Oh, it's awful. I'm so sorry.
-I mean, I'm just hoping tha
with all the great minds
in the entire world,
since this is a global pandemic,
and all these geniuses we have
that sooner or later, they'l
figure a way to treat it.
I'm not really a vaccine guy
because you got to be health
to take the vaccine,
and I'm like --
I've been vaccining myself
up to this point.
But when they finally
can treat it correctly,
I think we'll all take
a sigh of relief
and we'll know that
there's a lot more hope
than this experimental stage
we're in now.
-Yeah, absolutely.
How have you been spending
the time in quarantine?
-Um...
It was hard for me to start of
because, like yourself,
I'm used to working every day.
Everyone's into their routine,
so I had to stop,
and then, psychologically,
I was like,
"But everybody's stopping.
You know?
But it was rough
for at least the first month
because I'm just not used to it.
I'm used to getting up
and going.
-How is Coco?
-Well, they appreciate me
being home.
-Do they?
-They appreciate me being home
And fortunately, I'm not -
I'm in this --
Put it like this.
Even though I'm unemployed
I'm not in the same boat
as people
that live from check to check.
-Oh, yeah.
-And I put a little bit of money
away for a rainy day.
I didn't know it was gonna b
a rainy year, though.
[ Both laugh ]
-Yeah, no one planned on this.
-No one said a rainy year.
So, you know,
at the end of the day,
I just -- just -- I just slo
down a lot, you know?
And I try to become creative
in other ways.
What you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?
-Well, you have
a beautiful family,
so you get to appreciate them,
and you watch -- oh, my gosh -
Chanel's gorgeous.
She's growing up.
She's four.
-And, you know, she gets -
Kids adapt to whatever it is
so you tell them coronavirus
they go, "Coronavirus."
She puts on her mask first
I mean, this child believe
to go outside, you need a mask
because this is the age she is
so she doesn't know
anything else,
so she's growing up
in this situation.
So kids really adapt
quicker than we do.
They're not really stuck i
their ways.
You know, so she's like,
"Daddy's home every day.
This is great. This is cool.
-"And when we go out,
I wear a mask."
Yeah, it's like you're
just doing -- Yeah.
-That's what it is.
-I saw an Instagram photo
you posted of her
with a little kitten.
Is that yours?
-Oh, yeah.
Well, no, her cousin's
got a kitten,
and I don't even think
Chanel even understood
what kittens were, so,
of course, she wants a kitten,
but we're just gonna let i
do its course, you know.
-You're not gonna -- Really?
You're gonna stick to
your grounds?
-She's getting one tomorrow.
[ Both laugh ]
