Zitat des Tages von Ice T:
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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.
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 have to grow with my audience.
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.
Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.
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.
I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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 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.
So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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.
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.
I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
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.'
When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
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.
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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.
Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.
