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 do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.
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.
When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!
You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
Winners have to absorb losses.
I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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.
AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.
One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.