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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 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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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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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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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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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 was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, Wow, I was destroying myself. But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.
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Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
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