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" I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. "
Ice T
Growing
Go
Growing Up
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" 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. "
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" Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. "
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" I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that. "
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" 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. "
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" When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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Problem
Place
" 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. "
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Phone
" 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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Long
Survive
Wait
" 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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Me
Better
Writing
" I'm on the front line and I am a rapper. "
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Line
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Am
" 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. "
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Rap
Year
Groups
" I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. "
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Rap
Able
Ten
" 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. "
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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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" The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it. "
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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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Audience
New
" Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well. "
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Ice
Man
Nobody
" 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. "
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Virginia
Brother
Quiet
" I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous. "
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Good
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Thought
" Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value. "
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Headline
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Most
" I've never been competitive with anybody but myself. "
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Myself
Been
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