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Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.

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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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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When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously.
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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'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
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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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Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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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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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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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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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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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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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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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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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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