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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T
Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
Ice T
It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.
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
I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
Ice T
A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
Ice T
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice T
When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
Ice T
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
Ice T
I have to grow with my audience.
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
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.
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
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
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
Ice T
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Ice T
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.
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
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 in the music has done some outrageous things.
Ice T
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