Rap legend Ice-T roasts host Waleed Aly on The Project

Waleed Aly was hilariously roasted on The Project last night when he quizzed a US rapper about the origins of his name.

Waleed Aly was roasted on The Project last night when he quizzed US rapper Ice-T about the origins of his name.

The legendary musician and actor appeared on the Aussie program via videolink on Tuesday night to discuss his upcoming movie Zombie Plane, which is currently filming in Australia, when Aly questioned him about his famous ‘Ice’ moniker.

“Everybody wants to be cool. You know what I’m saying? Being ice is the epitome of cool,” explained the 67-year-old musician, whose real name is Tracy Lauren Marrow. “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.”

“So, you know, I was like considered Cool T. I was named after Iceberg Slim. My friends call me Iceberg. They call me Berg.”

Waleed Aly was roasted by rapper Ice-T and the panel on The Project.

While Ice – who joined the show via videolink from the Gold Coast set of Zombie Plane – was a good sport and answered the question graciously, Aly’s co-panellist Sam Taunton couldn’t help but mock the question.

“Ice, would you say anyone who has to ask the question ‘Why do people go for ‘Ice’ to be cool’ is not cool?”

“Yeah,” the rapper replied. “I would say that, you know, that’s kind of a question you get from a real-life square.”

Aly was called “not cool” for quizzing the US rapper about the “Ice” in his name.

Panellists Georgie Tunny and Kate Langbroek, were left in hysterics with their guest’s deadpan answer, with Taunton saying he was “dying” over the rapper’s hilarious response.

Speaking of Ice, Vanilla Ice joins Ice-T in Zombie Plane, which also stars Chuck Norris and local celebs Sophie Monk and Kyle Sandilands.

The horror-comedy initially did not appeal to Ice, who has also made a name for himself by playing Detective Fin Tutuola on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since 2000. But it was his wife Coco Austin and daughter Chanel who convinced him to sign on.

“They said to me, ‘Would you like to come down to Australia and do a Zombie movie?’ I’m like, ‘No, I’m good. Uh-uh, no,’” he recalled.

“And then my daughter was like, ‘Come on, Daddy. Zombies, zombies, we love zombie movies.’ And Coco was like, ‘A zombie movie? You’re going to turn down a zombie movie?’ So I’m on a plane to Down Under and here I am.”

Originally published as Rap legend Ice-T roasts host Waleed Aly on The Project