"I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived."
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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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"You can't get what you want all the time in life."
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"I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture."
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"I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up."
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"There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it."
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"So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting."
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"Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now."
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"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."
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"I've never been competitive with anybody but myself."
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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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"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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"Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out."
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"You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard."
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"Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets."
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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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"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 want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums."
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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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"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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