Ice T Quotes
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My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'
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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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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 it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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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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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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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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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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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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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
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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 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 don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
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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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I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.
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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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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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So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
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When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'
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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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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.