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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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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
Actor
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Tracy Lauren Marrow
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Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.
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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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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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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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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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When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!
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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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The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, Hello.
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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 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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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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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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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard.
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Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
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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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I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
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