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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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" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop. "

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