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

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" 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, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying. "

" I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that. "

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

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

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

" I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out. "

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

" I have to grow with my audience. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. "

" Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. "

" So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?! "

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

" If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. "