--- description: "You roll a 5 and encounter a... WTF??" title: Rapper Ice-T Records Dungeons & Dragons Audiobook for Audible image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd19b62b2a5593ab1/69868206169ab0859b277e2d/ice-t-final-level.jpg?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Recording a Dungeons & Dragons Audiobook Was One of the Hardest Things Ice-T Has Ever Done by [Kyle Chayka](/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 6, 2014 4:11 PM CUT  Even his podcast title is appropriate. Even his podcast title is appropriate.iTunes by [Kyle Chayka](/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 6, 2014 4:11 PM CUT When rapper and _Law and Order_ star Ice-T tried to expand his talents into the burgeoning field of recording audiobooks, “It took me three-and-a-half hours to read 25 pages,” he said on a recent episode of his [podcast](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNEkjbgxRG0 "undefined"). That’s because he was trying to read a Dungeons & Dragonsbook. The experience of trying to pronounce vocabulary like [Zerthimon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerthimon "undefined"), [Vlaakith](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaakith "undefined"), and [Krusk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons%5F%26%5FDragons%5Ficonic%5Fcharacters "undefined") was exhausting. “When you read these books, you make up the pronunciation in your head. But to actually verbally say this words? Son,” he said. “I needed breaks. I needed water.” Recording a 40-page short story eventually took Ice-T two days. “Every word you’re saying is pretty much made up. \[Characters\] talk like Yoda: Outside I go, into the sun thereof, in, out….how do you read this \[stuff\]?” the [_Los Angeles Times_ transcribes](http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-ice-t-dungeons-dragons-audiobook-20140205,0,3370890.story#axzz2sXqDCWv9 "undefined"). If fantasy writing is too much, maybe he could just rap about D&D instead? [Verses](http://rapgenius.com/Body-count-cop-killer-lyrics "undefined") like “I got my brain on hype, tonight’ll be your night, I got this long-assed knife,” are… almost appropriate. If they were about knights slaying giant monsters in caves instead of policemen. It’s a great marketing move: an Ice-T audiobook is pretty much the only way you could make us buy anything D&D related. Just don’t call it [nerdcore](http://frontalot.com/index.php/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5276/recording-a-dungeons-dragons-audiobook-was-one-of-the-hardest-things-ice-t-has-ever-done/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5276/recording-a-dungeons-dragons-audiobook-was-one-of-the-hardest-things-ice-t-has-ever-done/"},"headline":"Recording a Dungeons & Dragons Audiobook Was One of the Hardest Things Ice-T Has Ever Done","datePublished":"2014-02-06T16:11:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:04.100Z","description":"\"You roll a 5 and encounter a... WTF??\"","url":"https://time.com/5276/recording-a-dungeons-dragons-audiobook-was-one-of-the-hardest-things-ice-t-has-ever-done/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Books","Rappers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd19b62b2a5593ab1/69868206169ab0859b277e2d/ice-t-final-level.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kyle Chayka","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd19b62b2a5593ab1/69868206169ab0859b277e2d/ice-t-final-level.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ice-t-final-level","caption":"Ice-T","creditText":"iTunes","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5276/recording-a-dungeons-dragons-audiobook-was-one-of-the-hardest-things-ice-t-has-ever-done/","name":"Recording a Dungeons & Dragons Audiobook Was One of the Hardest Things Ice-T Has Ever Done"}}]}] ```