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Diet food is for lazy people.
Ice T
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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
Actor
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Newark
New Jersey
Tracy Lauren Marrow
Tracy Marrow
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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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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.
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When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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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 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'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.
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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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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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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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I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.
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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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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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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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Winners have to absorb losses.
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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 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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