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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.
Ice T
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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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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I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.
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I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.
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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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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Ice T
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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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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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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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.
Ice T
Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
Ice T
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.
Ice T
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.
Ice T
Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
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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.
Ice T
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
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The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, Hello.
Ice T
Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.
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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
Diet food is for lazy people.
Ice T
I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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