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" A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. "
Limit
Will
Different
" AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious. "
Think
Scary
AIDS
" 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. "
Words
You
Great
" 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. "
You
Party
Master
" 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. "
New York
Audience
New
" 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. "
You
Why
Want
" 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. "
Cats
Rap
Long
" Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. "
Family
Name
People
" Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad. "
You
Win
Mad
" Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg. "
Short
Try
Know
" Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run. "
Artists
Long
Everything
" 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. "
Hollywood
Want
Cinema
" I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. "
Just
Think
Got
" Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things. "
Music
Outrageous
Some
" I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived. "
Lived
Things
Possibly
" 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. "
Difficult
Top
Think
" I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. "
Casual
Record
Rap
" 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. "
Time
Angry
Acting
" If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. "
Miles
Need
Understand
" If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie. "
Go
Make
Movie
" If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. "
Need
Gun
Wants
" If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. "
Rapper
Stop
Really
" I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do. "
Cops
People
Just
" I have to grow with my audience. "
Grow
Audience
" I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. "
Good
Show
Never
" I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. "
Fan
Gotta
Even
" I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can. "
Real
Possibly
Effort
" 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. "
Long
Survive
Wait
" I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. "
Like
Record
Would
" I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week. "
You
Easy
Me
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