Ice-T Recalls Being 'Set Up' and Robbed By Best Friend

Ice-T has recalled a time that someone he considered a best friend became so envious of him that they robbed him.

On a recent episode of Get Up & Tighten Up, the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star looked back on the incident, admitting around the 50-minute mark that the people he hung out with in L.A. were "considerably dangerous individuals."

"They might have love for me but they might not like the other rappers 'cause they're like, 'Oh, you're trying to challenge Ice. We don't like you,'" the rapper told host Norman Seabrook.

Ice-T added that there were times his friends tried to "cannibalize" or "turn on him" when he didn't meet their material needs. "So when you're from this environment...you just never know."

"I got robbed, I got set up by one of my best friends," he continued. "It was funny, after it happened, I talked to somebody. They said, 'That was somebody you fed, that was somebody who's actually sat down to dinner with you that set you up."

Ice elaborated that a stranger wouldn't know the layout of his home, but someone who's been there before "knows." The artist added that he's learned his "lessons" about deceptive friends and that someone close to him imparted wisdom about the situation.

"I was upset when my lick went down on me until one of my boys told me,
straight up, they said, 'Ice you ain't got to feel no way 'cause there's no defense for betrayal,'" he explained.

"'Now, if that was an enemy, okay, maybe they caught you lacking. But that was your friend. There's no way to protect yourself against that, so don't feel any kind of way. That was some sucka shit.'"

Ice, who's also admitted to being a robber in the past, discussed being robbed on a 2019 episode of Untold Stories of Hip Hop.

"My daughter was there," Ice said at the time. "It's like I can't set it off, but they were gonna kill us. Then I gotta do something—so they robbed us, they took our money, the jewelry, and the dude just turns the lights off. And then they left."