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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.
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I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.
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I was a pretty bad person early in my life.
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I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.
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When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.
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