[Skit Intro: Ice-T, Interviewer]

Ice! Explain Body Count

Body Count is a band I put together just to let one of my best friends Ernie C play his guitar. He's always been playing guitar, we all went to Crenshaw High School together in South Central Los Angeles. And I had the idea of let's make a metal band, let's make rock band, because I had been to Europe and I noticed that the kids would mosh off of hip-hop

So we put the band together and I used the three bands that were my favourites at the time to set the tone. We used the impending doom of a group like Black Sabbath, who pretty much invented metal; the punk sensibility of somebody like Suicidal, who basically put that gangbanger style from Venice, California into the game; and the speed and the precision of Slayer, one of my favourite groups and always will be

[Part I: Raining Blood]

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse: Ice-T]

Trapped in purgatory

A lifeless object, alive

Awaiting reprisal

Death will be their acquisition

The sky is turning red

Return to power draws near

Fall into me, the sky's crimson tears

Abolish the rules made of stone

[Bridge: Ice-T]

Pierced from below, souls of my treacherous past

Betrayed by many, now ornaments bleeding above

Awaiting the hour of reprisal

Your time slips away

[Breakdown]

[Chorus: Ice-T]

Raining blood

From a lacerated sky

Bleeding its horror

Creating my structure I now reign in blood

[Guitar Solo]

[Part II: Postmortem]

[Verse 1: Vince Dennis]

My sinful glare at nothing holds thoughts of death behind it

Skeletons in my mind commence tearing at my sanity

Vessels in my brain carry death until my birth

Come and die with me forever

Share insanity

Do you want to die?

[Verse 2: Vince Dennis]

The waves of blood are rushing near, pounding at the walls of lies

Turning off my sanity, reaching back into my mind

Non-rising body from the grave showing new reality

What I am, what I want, I'm only after death