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You can't just sing the song and live another life.
Ice T
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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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Tracy Lauren Marrow
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.
Ice T
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.
Ice T
I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun when really, people are losing their homes.
Ice T
You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation. Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.
Ice T
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
Ice T
So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
Ice T
The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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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.
Ice T
Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
Ice T
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
Ice T
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Ice T
I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
Ice T
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
Ice T
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you to take the role and make it real.
Ice T
I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.
Ice T
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.
Ice T
Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.
Ice T