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I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.

Ice Cube

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
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Sometimes guys just want the girl and want to drop the kids off anywhere they can. Guys it’s a package. You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided. It’s pretty cool.
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.
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A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.
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The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
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Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball... Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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To be the cream of the crop is no easy feat. It's a big deal.
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If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
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For my birthday, buy me a politician!
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America eats its youth like reptiles...Educat e yourself before they dumb you down.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.
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The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.
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