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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. "

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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

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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 think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. "

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

" 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. "

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" Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well. "

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

" Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. "