When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. — Ice T Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. — Ice T Copy Share Image
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about. — Ice T Copy Share Image
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. — Ice T Copy Share Image
No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you." — Ice T Copy Share Image
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. — Ice T Copy Share Image
Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history. — Ice T Copy Share Image
Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. — Ice T Copy Share Image
When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat.… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same… — Ice T Copy Share Image
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC.… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because… — Ice T Copy Share Image
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… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture,… — Ice T Copy Share Image
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then… — Ice T Copy Share Image
It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore… — Ice T Copy Share Image
It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want… — Ice T Copy Share Image
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… — Ice T Copy Share Image
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say… — Ice T Copy Share Image
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… — Ice T Copy Share Image
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. — Ice T Copy Share Image
The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't… — Ice T Copy Share Image
It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white… — Ice T Copy Share Image
When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong.… — Ice T Copy Share Image
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… — Ice T Copy Share
I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm… — Ice T Copy Share
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… — Ice T Copy Share
I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles. — Ice T Copy Share
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… — Ice T Copy Share
Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally.… — Ice T Copy Share
“This next record is dedicated to some personal friends of mine, the LAPD. For every cop that has ever taken advantage of somebody, beat… — Ice T Copy Share
There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record.… — Ice T Copy Share
Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that. — Ice T Copy Share
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… — Ice T Copy Share
I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other. — Ice T Copy Share
I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get… — Ice T Copy Share
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… — Ice T Copy Share
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. — Ice T Copy Share
