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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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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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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I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.
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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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Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.
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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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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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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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I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.
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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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Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.
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Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.
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A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.
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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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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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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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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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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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