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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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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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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
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The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you. It's very competitive.
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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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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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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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Diet food is for lazy people.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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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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I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
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With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, Hello.
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With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.
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There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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