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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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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