WWW- ICE-T and his stripper-wife, Coco, have caused a problem by posing nude in a steamy clinch on the cover of the rap legend’s new album – and now stores across the country are demanding it be censored before they stock it.

“Gangsta Rap,” Ice-T’s first studio album in seven years, shows him lying on his back in bed with his ravishing wife’s ample posterior in full view and one of her legs coyly draped over his private parts.

But while the cover just barely steers clear of being pornographic, it’s way too suggestive for most retailers, according to Melee Recordings, which is releasing the record on Halloween. “We’re getting lots of flak about it. What we’re going to have to do is place stickers over parts of the photo to avoid any problems,” one rep said.

Not that Ice-T, who stars on “Law & Order” and has appeared in “New Jack City” and “Frankenpenis,” is concerned about the uproar. He told Page Six last night, “What can I say, I have been doing these kinds of things for years.” Then, in a swaggering boast about his legendary sexual prowess, Ice-T added, “You should see the picture when Coco’s leg is not there.”

The cover art is far tamer than an insert inside the box advertising an upcoming 2007 calendar, which features an image of Coco completely naked leaning against a car.

But Ice-T insists he’s not all about raunch these days. His new VH1 series, “Ice T’s Rap School,” which debuted last night, shows the rapper putting a group of eighth-graders from York Preparatory School on West 68th Street through strenuous tests to transform them into “real rappers.”

Meanwhile, one rapper who’s making Ice-T look positively like a choirboy – at least on the concert circuit – is DMX. TheSmokingGun.com reports his contract riders require three boxes of Trojans, LifeStyles or Kimonos backstage. That shattered the “two boxes of condoms” record previously established by 50 Cent. DMX also insists on Hennessy cognac in the gallon-size bottle.