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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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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 rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.
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Winners have to absorb losses.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
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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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Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes it’s looking out in the same direction.
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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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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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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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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 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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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.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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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 on the front line and I am a rapper.
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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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When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.
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