Ice T Quotes - Page 5

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• I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

  Ice T

  People, Hatred, Racist

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• Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

  Ice T

  New York, Groups, Might

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• You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that.

  Ice T

  Wall, War, Challenges

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• There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio. You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard, like Chuck D said.

  Ice T

  Mean, Cat, Artist

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• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  Ice T

  Given

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• It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop.

  Ice T

  Integrity, Rap, Hip Hop

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• I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.

  Ice T

  Rap, Cat, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

  Ice T

  Hockey, Men, Ice

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• 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.

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  House, Parent, Black

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• 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.

  Ice T

  Rap, Writing, Mean

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• 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.

  Ice T

  Song, Mad, Acting

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• Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.

  Ice T

  Military, Moving, Chess Pieces

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.

  Ice T

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

  Ice T

  Believe, Different, Way

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Ice T

  Rap, Levels

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

  Ice T

  Records, Labels, Dissing

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• 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.

  Ice T

  Acting, Chosen, Fortunate

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• Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police.

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  Police, Bears, United States

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• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  Ice T

  Hollywood, Cinema, Stories

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• What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."

  Ice T

  Rap, Thinking, Flavor Of The Month

  Source: collider.com

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• Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

  Ice T

  Believe, School, Humility

  "Interview: Ice-T likes lemonade, loves Coco". Interview with Luis Gomez, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

  Ice T

  Doing You, Favors, Pressure

  "Interview: Ice-T likes lemonade, loves Coco". Interview with Luis Gomez, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 14, 2012.

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• What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point.

  Ice T

  Song, Real, Believe

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.

  Ice T

  Jobs, Police, Feelings

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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

  Ice T

  Rap, Pace, Records

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