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
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
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.
You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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 my hands.
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?!
When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!
Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.
When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass.
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 form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police.
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 channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.