Ice-T. He began his career as a rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays, one of the first hip-hop albums to carry an explicit content sticker. The next year, he founded the record label Rhyme $ yndicate Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the ` Rhyme $ yndicate') and released another album, Power.
Ice-T refused to ever make hip-hop music.
Assess the veracity of the claim based on the provided evidence.

Claim: Ice-T refused to ever make hip-hop music.

Evidence: Ice-T. He began his career as a rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays, one of the first hip-hop albums to carry an explicit content sticker. The next year, he founded the record label Rhyme $ yndicate Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the ` Rhyme $ yndicate') and released another album, Power.

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Assess the veracity of the claim based on the provided evidence.

Claim: Ice-T refused to ever make hip-hop music.

Evidence: Ice-T. He began his career as a rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays, one of the first hip-hop albums to carry an explicit content sticker. The next year, he founded the record label Rhyme $ yndicate Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the ` Rhyme $ yndicate') and released another album, Power.

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 - supported

 - refuted

 - not enough information
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