Actor and musician Ice-T, a rap pioneer and now an actor on NBC's "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" television series, speaks at a news conference to launch "Hip-Hop Won't Stop: The Beat, The Rhymes, The Life," a hip-hop exhbit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006. The multi-year project will trace hip-hop from its origins in the 1970's to its status today. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)