A biography for Ice Thasn’t been written yet.
“Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.”
“So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.”
“If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.”
“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 think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.”
“I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.”
“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 make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.”
“A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things.”
“I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.”
“I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.”