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

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" I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?! "

" I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad. "

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

" I have to grow with my audience. "

" 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. "

" A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt. "

" If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. "

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

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

" I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous. "

" When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit. "

" I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. "

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

" No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things. "

" I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.' "