I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

Ice T

Categorized in : Long Hip Hop Rap

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

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Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes; it’s looking out in the same direction.

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The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a we... by Ice T

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

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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Winners have to absorb losses. by Ice T

Winners have to absorb losses.

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Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

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The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's... by Ice T

The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."

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You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a lab... by Ice T

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 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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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper. by Ice T

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

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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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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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I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry. by Ice T

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

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

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

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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run. by Ice T

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

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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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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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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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I have to grow with my audience. by Ice T

I have to grow with my audience.