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" 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. "

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" I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived. "

" 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. "

" I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. "

" We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's. "

" Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. "

" I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. "

" Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff. "

" 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. "

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

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" Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you. "

" I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know. "

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

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" I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore. "

" My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive. "

" I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that. "

" If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. "

" 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 have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. "

" Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things. "

" You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system. "

" My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.' "

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" I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring. "

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" I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. "

" 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. "