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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.' "

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" 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, 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. "

" 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. "

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

" An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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 have to grow with my audience. "

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" I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous. "

" I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. "

" 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 ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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