Ice T Quotes
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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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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 ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
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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 think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.
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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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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
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So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
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Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
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Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
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When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
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Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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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 workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.
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I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.