Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production. Ice T More Quotes by Ice T More Quotes From Ice T Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. Ice T hipship-hopsound You can't get what you want all the time in life. Ice T what-you-wantwant I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up. Ice T rhyme I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them. Ice T given 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. Ice T catwanthands Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well. Ice T hockeyicemen Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out. Ice T rapstoriesway 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 blackparenthouse 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 rapcatwriting I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props. Ice T realizinggivingpeople 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 rolesactorsreal I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing. Ice T responsibilitypeoplethinking The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. Ice T armsdefenselasts You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. Ice T raplevels What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point. Ice T realsongbelieve 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 madactingsong My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude. Ice T brotherbluefather When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men. Ice T journeyrunningmen It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, "Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life." Ice T rapserioussometimes 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. Ice T rapcatthinking
