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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 you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
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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've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.
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Winners have to absorb losses.
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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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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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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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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.
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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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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, Wow, I was destroying myself. But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.
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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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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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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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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 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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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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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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