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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

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

One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.

Never mumble some sarcastic shit to somebody who can obviously fuck you up.

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

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

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

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

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

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

I've got a phone,
answer machine, TV set,
computer, hand grenade
- everything you need
to run a business in
Los Angeles.

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.

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

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

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

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

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.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

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

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

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

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

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few ... I just might be smarter than YOU

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

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

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.

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

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.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

I have to grow with my audience.

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot
Hoes I ain't caught
Or shit I ain't bought.

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.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

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

Winners have to absorb losses.

As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

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

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

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

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

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

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

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.

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

There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again.

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.

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.

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

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their lyrics.

Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.

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

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

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.

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.

Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

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

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

Diet food is for lazy people.

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.

The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

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

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

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

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Once I get something going well, I'll risk fucking it up just for the action.