"You can't do an impersonation of somebody nobody knows."
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"Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp."
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"Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about."
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"I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up."
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"There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?"
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"I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry."
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"I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years."
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"It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop."
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"I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU"
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"I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture."
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"I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards]."
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"I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record."
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"What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like.""
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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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"Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you."
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"There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again."
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"I have to grow with my audience."
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"When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously."
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"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."
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"My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road."
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