↑(en) « Body Count’s Ice-T Talks Shit but Does the Shooting », sur Decibel Magazine, (consulté le ), Back in the day, Body Count was categorized as “rap metal” or “nu metal.” Manslaughter sounds like just a straight-up metal album, without the hip-hop tropes that -- because of your background (and ethnicity) -- the band was initially categorized by.
↑(en) Metcalf Metcalf et Will Turner (dir.), Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player : Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production, Ashgate Publishing Company, 109 p., Moreover, the band's second album, 'Born Dead,' released on Virgin Records in September 1994, peaked at a lowly 74. Upon its release, the Los Angeles Times remarked that 'it's time to pull the plug on this genre [of rap-metal]. The novelty has worn off.'
↑(en) Adam Workman, « Album review: Body Count – Manslaughter », sur TheNational, (consulté le ) : « The uncompromising Los Angeles rap-metal crew Body Count clearly haven’t gone soft in the eight years since their last album. »