Waleed Aly copped a brutal on-air roasting from none other than American rap icon Ice-T during Tuesday night’s episode of The Project.
The 46-year-old Melbourne-based broadcaster interviewed the Grammy Award-winning artist about his new film Zombie Plane, which is currently being filmed on the Gold Coast.
“Wonderful to have you on the show Mr T, and congratulations on this film,” Waleed said, as Ice-T joined the program via video link.
“I have to ask- we watched a little bit of, I don’t know what it was, frankly, because it looked bonkers. Did you know what you were signing up for?”
Ice-T laughed, replying: “Uh, not really, I mean, I got the offer, they called me and said ‘Would you like to come down to Australia to do a zombie movie?’, I’m like, ‘Nah, I’m good’.
“And then my daughter was like, ‘C’mon daddy, zombies, zombies, we love zombie movies’,” he said, adding that his wife, TV personality and model Coco Austin, also encouraged him to take the role.
“So I’m on a plane, next thing I know I’m on my way Down Under. So here I am.”
Waleed tried to keep things light with a cheeky question: “What is it with rappers and ice? Like, what, there’s T, Cube (referencing Ice Cube), Vanilla, why?”
The 67-year-old rapper, whose real name is Tracy Lauren Marrow, bluntly responded: “Everybody wants to be cool. You know what I’m saying?
“Being ice is the epitome of cool.
“I’m Ice-T and I’m not iced tea to drink, I’m Ice capital T. My name starts with a T, my real name is Tracy.”
He added: “So, you know, I was like considered Cool T. I was named after Iceberg Slim. My friends call me Iceberg. They call me Berg.”
Then cohost Sam Taunton chimed in, asking if people who have to ask that kind of question might actually not be that cool.
Without missing a beat, Ice-T replied: “Yeah. I would say that.
“That’s kind of a question you get from a real life square.”
The brutal but hilarious comeback left panellists Georgie Tunny and Kate Langbroek in fits of laughter, while Taunton admitted he was “dying” from the deadpan takedown of Aly.
In the film, which also stars Chuck Norris, Vanilla Ice, and Australia’s own Sophie Monk, Ice-T said he plays a no-nonsense “general” who is called in to handle chaos in the skies.
“I’m the guy they call about this plane, and I’m on a yacht on vacation with my wife when I get this call about the zombies from Chuck Norris,” he explained, though he kept the rest of the plot under wraps.
“I let them know that they better handle these zombies in the plane or I’m going to blow that plane right out of the sky.”
Zombie Plane is set to hit Aussie cinemas later this year.
