There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

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You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

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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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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

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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 it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

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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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Big Big Fan Biggie Even

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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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Come Get Just Level

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I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

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Artists Everything Helps Long

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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

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I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

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Good Hammer Just Like

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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

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Am Front Front Line I Am

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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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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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AIDS Also Deadly Happen

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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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Another Casual I Can Out

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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

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Rapper Rapping Really Stop

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When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

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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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Album Back Best Best Way

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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

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Able Always Am Believed

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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

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Am Embracing Everybody Happy

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Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

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Ice Man Mr Nobody

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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

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Easy Me Mean Over

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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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Around Cats Hip Hip Hop

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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

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Business Fruit Go Hanging

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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

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Against Arms Bear Because

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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

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Gun Need People Somebody

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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

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About Anybody Art Art Form

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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

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Form Go Got Growing

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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

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Acting Choose Chosen Fortunate

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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

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Done Music Outrageous Some

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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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Collar Brother Came Dude

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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

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Angeles Aunt Father Grade

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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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Change Doing Just 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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After Anyone Considered Done

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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

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Art Art Form Because Been

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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

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Ceremonies Control Crowd Master

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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

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About Beat Better Could

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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

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Different Different Ways Emcee Good

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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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Buried Connected Hip Hop I Think

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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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Bit Feminism I Think Little

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I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

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Effort Keep Make Possibly

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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

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Aggressive Better Better Life I Think

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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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"44 Ice T Quotes & Sayings

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

Ice T

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

Ice T

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

Ice T

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.

Ice T

Ice T

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Ice T

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.

Ice T

Ice T

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Ice T

Ice T

Ice T

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

Ice T

Ice T

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

Ice T

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

Ice T

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

Ice T

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

Ice T

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.

Ice T

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

Ice T

Ice T

Ice T

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

Ice T

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Ice T

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

Ice T

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

Ice T

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

Ice T

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.

Ice T

Ice T

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Ice T

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

Ice T

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

Ice T

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Ice T

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

Ice T

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

Ice T

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Ice T

Ice T

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.

Ice T

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Ice T

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.

Ice T

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.

Ice T

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

Ice T

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

Ice T