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I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

Ice Cube

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
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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.
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I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.
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Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?
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When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.
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You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth.
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You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission.
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I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV.
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I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.
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Are We There Yet? was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.
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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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You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.
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Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids.
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If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there's nothing better than breaking through. There's no better feeling than breaking through.
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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly.
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Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.
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I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
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