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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.
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I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.
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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
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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 best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, Hello.
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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
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When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously.
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Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.
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It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life.
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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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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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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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