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Marrow attended Palms Junior High, which was predominately made up of white students, and included black students bussed in from South Central.

After graduating, he attended Crenshaw High School, which was almost entirely made up of black students.

Marrow stood out from most of his friends because he did not drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, or use drugs.

During high school, gangs began to intensify in the Los Angeles school system.

Students who belonged to the Bloods and Crips gangs attended Crenshaw, and fought in the school's halls.

Tracy aligned with the Crips, and began reading the novels of Iceberg Slim, which he memorized and recited to his friends, who enjoyed hearing the excerpts and told him, " Yo, kick some more of that by Ice, T ," and the handle stuck.

Marrow and other Crips wrote and performed " Crip Rhymes ", long before the advent of hip hop and recorded rapping.