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Ice-T wants to be buried face down

Ice-T wants to be buried face down

Ice-T wants the world to “kiss [his] a**” when he dies.

The 66-year-old rapper – whose real name is Tracy Marrow – claimed he hasn’t thought too much about his funeral but would like to be put into his coffin face-down with his derriere on display.

Asked the song he wants played at his funeral, he told Classic Rock magazine: “I really don’t know, but I asked to be buried face down so the world can kiss my a**.

“I hate funerals, I just wanted to be cremated and disappear. ‘Ashes to Ashes, funk to funky’, I don’t mind that.”

The ‘Cop Killer’ hitmaker – who was orphaned at 13 when his dad died from a heart attack, four years after his mom passed away from the same cause – rarely ever cries because he learned at a young age that emotions “didn’t matter”.

He said: “I haven’t cried since my dog Spartacus passed away, five, six years ago.

“I didn’t even know I had tear glands, I hadn’t cried in so long.

“Being an orphan and growing up on my own, I learned to delete those emotions because it didn’t matter. I had to learn to suck it up.”

The ‘Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn’ actor always admired Jimi Hendrix as the late guitar legend taught him there were “no limits” in music.

He said: “We’re all out there trying to play tight, tight, tight.

“When I saw Jimi’s live performances, he was so unpolished; ‘I’m gonna go on stage and jam and you mother******* keep up with me.’

“It’s a whole different style of rock.

“And being a black person was important. It showed me there would be no limits to music; be whatever colour, if you’re good, people are going to have to respect you.”

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