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
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.
I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU
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 in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.
Winners have to absorb losses.
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 think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it.
It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.
I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.
I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.
Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.
I was a pretty bad person early in my life.