Ice-T Quotes
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ice-T
Ice-T Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.
I've got a phone,
answer machine, TV set,
computer, hand grenade
- everything you need
to run a business in
Los Angeles.
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.
Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."
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.
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.
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.
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'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.
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.
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.
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.