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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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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.
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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
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When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.
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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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I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.
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Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.
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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.
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Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.
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A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.
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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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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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...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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