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" I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative. "

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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. "

Ice T

People

Music

Son

" I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't. "

" I have to grow with my audience. "

Ice T

Grow

Audience

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

" 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. "

" If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. "

" 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. "

" I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about. "

Ice T

Better

Writing

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Ice T

Life

My Life

" When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting. "

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

" '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. "

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

" The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. "

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

" When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. "

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

" Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value. "

" My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. "

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

" 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. "

" I've never been competitive with anybody but myself. "

" I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. "