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" I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week. "
Ice T
You
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Me
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" I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying. "
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" 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. "
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" 'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible. "
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" Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. "
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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?! "
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" If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. "
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" I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. "
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" 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. "
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" Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad. "
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" I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. "
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" The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. "
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" You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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