In 1993, a music critic called one of Ice-T's performances "as historically powerful as anything in our culture right now." The performance in question? That of the song "Evil Dick" -- during which Ice-T simulated sex with the floor while furiously stroking an immense imaginary penis.

[Perhaps the man was persuaded by Ice-T's warning to potential critics. "I let 'em know," he once explained, "if you write some s--- and I see you, I'm beatin' your f---in' ass!"]