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You know, I say in my lyrics, Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white. It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears.

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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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 write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.
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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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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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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
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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.
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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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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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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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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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Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.
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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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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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I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio.
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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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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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...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
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