Ice T
Ice T
Tracy Lauren Marrow better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays, the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker. The next year, he founded the record label Rhyme $yndicate Recordsand released another album, Power...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth16 February 1958
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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 in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.
Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.
Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.
I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].
It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.
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.
Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
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.
...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.
There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again.
The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.