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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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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 write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.
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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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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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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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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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The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, Hello.
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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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Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.
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I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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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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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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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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People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you.
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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 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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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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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've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.
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