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" The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody. "
Ice Cube
Family
Wake Up
You
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" We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want. "
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" I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie. "
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See
" I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really. "
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" I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen. "
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Different
Little
" Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere. "
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Know
People
" Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. "
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Change
Trying
People
" Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with. "
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White
School
" I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. "
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Good
Fast
Believe
" I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up. "
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Good
Tough
Pressure
" Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit. "
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Hate
Think
School
" I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past. "
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Future
Proud
Got
" My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme. "
Ice Cube
He
Son
Rhyme
" 'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them. "
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Song
Group
Doing
" I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. "
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Video Games
Try
Think
" I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know. "
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Coffee
Know
Morning
" It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?' "
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Think
You
People
" Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. "
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Doing
Way
Successful
" You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided. "
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You
Woman
She
" My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.' "
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Trouble
Tell
Cuss
" I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that. "
Ice Cube
You
World
Respect
" Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public. "
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Cube
Away
Me
" The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love. "
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Career
You
World
" I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time. "
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House
Father
Los Angeles
" Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining. "
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Sports
Without
Music
" Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you. "
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Doing
You
Worry
" I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. "
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Cool
Love
Building
" I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. "
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Love
Freedom
Way
" I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility. "
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Versatility
Game
Cause
" When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out. "
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Good
Worth
People
" I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself. "
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Love
Great
Challenge