Ice T Quotes
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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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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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
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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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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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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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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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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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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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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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When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
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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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I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
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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 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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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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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.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.