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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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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
Actor
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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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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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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Winners have to absorb losses.
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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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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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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'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.
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Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.
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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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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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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've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.
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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.
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I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.
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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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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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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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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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When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously.
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