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

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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. "

" I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad. "

" 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. "

" The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it. "

" 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?! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. "

" I'm on the front line and I am a rapper. "

" My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.' "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff. "

" The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen. "

" I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know. "

" I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. "

" AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious. "

" I have to grow with my audience. "

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

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

" I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do. "