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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.
Ice T
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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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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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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Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
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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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If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
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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 mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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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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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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I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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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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Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.
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When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.
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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 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 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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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.
Ice T
One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.
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With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you.
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