NO MELTDOWN: Ice-T has been warning people...

NO MELTDOWN: Ice-T has been warning people ever since the “Cop Killer” controversy that he’s holding no punches in his next rap album, which will be titled “Home Invasion” and will be at your neighborhood record store on Nov. 10.

But did you know that Ice-T also has another album on the way with Body Count, the heavy-metal band that recorded “Cop Killer.”

Can he really be a success in both rap and heavy-metal?

Though the demographics vary greatly for the two styles, Ice-T doesn’t worry about being viewed as an interloper in either camp.

“There is a common ground with metal and rap which is aggression and honesty,” he said, during a break at the recent Foundation Forum, a hard-rock convention in Los Angeles. “Basically, I make all my albums off of one blueprint. I usually have something that’s slightly political, something ‘gangsta-ish’ and something sexually oriented.”

Meanwhile, ex-Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra believes “Cop Killer”--which was dropped last summer from Body Count’s debut album after protests that the song encouraged violence against police officers--should be available to the public.

So, he’s looking into releasing the track as a single on his Alternative Tentacles label. “I don’t care if we have to release it as a nonprofit single, ‘Cop Killer’ has to remain out there,” he says.