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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, I don't have any options. You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.
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Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.
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I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.
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Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.
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I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
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Winners have to absorb losses.
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I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun when really, people are losing their homes.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you to take the role and make it real.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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I was a pretty bad person early in my life.
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You can't just sing the song and live another life.
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...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
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One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes it’s looking out in the same direction.
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