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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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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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You can't just sing the song and live another life.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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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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When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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