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

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

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

" Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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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" 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.' "

" 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. "