Metal and hip-hop have always had a tenuous relationship. On the one hand, the two genres found kinship with one another in the ’90s, as they were both street-level scenes that blew up without help ...

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A decade ago, Ice-T was part of the essential music documentary “Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap,” which focuses on the craft of writing and performing the genre. Now, the iconic rapper, heavy ...