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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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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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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You can't just sing the song and live another life.
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Diet food is for lazy people.
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People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you to take the role and make it real.
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My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.
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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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You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation. Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.
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I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.
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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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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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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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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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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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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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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've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.
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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 just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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