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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

From Ice T

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

From Ice T

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

From Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

From Ice T

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

From Ice T

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

From Ice T

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.

From Ice T

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 do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

From Ice T

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

From Ice T

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.

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