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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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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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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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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You know, I say in my lyrics, Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white. It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears.
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Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
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I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.
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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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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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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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You can't just sing the song and live another life.
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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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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 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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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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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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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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