Divorced from the controversy that surrounded its release, Body Count's self-titled debut is a surprisingly tepid affair. Apart from the previously released Body Count (which appeared on Ice-T's 1991 album O.G. Original Gangster), the record is devoid of serious commentary, trading intelligence for a lurid comic book depiction of sex, violence, and Voodoo. All of Ice-T's half-sung/half-shouted lyrics fall far short of the standard he established on his hip-hop albums. The controversial Cop Killer -- which is nothing more than a standard thrash metal chant -- stands out because it is one of the few tracks that doesn't rely on garish, cartoonish imagery. There's the saga of Evil Dick, which tells Ice-T to not "sleep alone." There's KKK Bitch, where he crashes a Ku Klux Klan meeting and screws the grand dragon's daughter. There's Voodoo, where a witch doctor cripples our hero with a voodoo doll. There's Mama's Gotta Die Tonight, where Ice-T offs his mother cause she's racist. By the time the band works around to the power ballad The Winner Loses and Ice-T is crooning, "My friend's addicted to cocaine," it's unclear whether the record is a parody or a flawed stab at arena metal. Either way, Body Count is a humorous curio from the early '90s that will appeal either to metalheads or listeners with a twisted sense of humor. [After Cop Killer was pulled from the album, it was replaced with a bland version of Ice-T's rap classic The Iceberg recorded with Jello Biafra.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

1		Smoked Pork
2		Body Count's in the House
3		Now Sports
4		Body Count
5		A Statistic
6		Bowels of the Devil
7		The Real Problem
8		KKK Bitch
9		C Note
10		Voodoo
11		The Winner Loses
12		There Goes the Neighborhood
13		Oprah
14		Evil Dick
15		Body Count Anthem
16		Momma's Gotta Die Tonight
17		Freedom of Speech