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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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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop.
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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 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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I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously.
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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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Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.
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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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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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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 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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...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
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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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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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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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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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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.
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