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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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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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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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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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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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's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.
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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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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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When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men.
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I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.
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I was a pretty bad person early in my life.
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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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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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