Latest Ice T Quotes from Interviews

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• It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, "Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life."

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  Rap, Serious, Sometimes

• When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men.

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  Running, Journey, Men

• 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.

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  Integrity, Rap, Hip Hop

• I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.

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  Rhyme

• I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  "Interview Ice-T and Chuck D. by Jorge Hinojosa". Interview With Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.

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  People, Giving, Realizing

  "Interview Ice-T and Chuck D. by Jorge Hinojosa". Interview With Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

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  Thinking, Enemy, Graffiti

• 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.

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  Mean, Cat, Artist

• You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about. It's pop and pop just says that we could be actors. We could sing about stuff and not believe in it. It could be absolutely fraudulent and it doesn't really matter.

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  Song, Believe, Difficult

• You can't get what you want all the time in life.

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  Want, What You Want

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

• I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.

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  Letting Go, Branches, Monkeys

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

• You can't do an impersonation of somebody nobody knows.

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  Nobody Knows, Knows

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

• When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.

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  Wall

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

• 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.

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  Believe, School, Humility

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

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

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  Doing You, Favors, Pressure

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

• I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture.

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  Persons, Ifs

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

• You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears.

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  Fall, Writing, White

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

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  Rap, Writing, Stuff

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously.

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  Believe, Ego, Firsts

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

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  Real, Real Men, Men

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Causes, Graffiti

• You can't just sing the song and live another life.

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  Song, Another Life

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you.

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  Artist, Voice, Average

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

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  Cat, Hands, Want

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. 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.

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  Mean, Thinking, Artist

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.