Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the… — 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
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
