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" 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'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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can. "

" 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 have to grow with my audience. "

Ice T

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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Easy

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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. "