Quotes About Ice-T

I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.

In the words of Ice-T, "Do I look like a motherfuckin' role model?

Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it was street-level journalism, real-life observations told in poetry. That's the vision I tried to bring to all my recordings.

N.W.A dropped Straight Outta Compton, and when Ice Cube said the line "from the gang called Niggas Wit Attitudes," boom—suddenly the media had a new phrase to latch on to: 1988 was the year of gangsta rap. N.W.A took it to stratospheric heights, and I was dubbed the godfather of the movement.

It was the sisters down at Good Fred's, where I would get my hair permed, who convinced me. "Ice, baby, you better do this. You better take this opportunity to be in a movie.

got to hang out with Shock G and Tupac backstage.

Chris Rock often says I was an uncredited codirector on New Jack City. It wasn't really codirecting, but when we were shooting, I sometimes wore the hat of technical advisor for those little street details.

started off when I was at Crenshaw High, as a form of self-defense: I learned that using my verbal gymnastics was a good way to keep the gangbangers off my bumpers. We didn't call it "rapping" back then. It was "toasting.

on West End Avenue. Left pretty much all my possessions and just came to New York to start over again.

Ice, you going from the streets to playing the police on TV is the biggest hustle in history, you know? You made the ultimate getaway.

was enrolled in. He was involved with the Scared Straight program and various other inmate self-helps.

I didn't even know there was an open mic competition that night with Kurtis Blow as the judge.

I was switching up my lyrical style, but I wasn't expecting the impact that one B side was going to have, that it would pretty much transform the hip-hop sound of the West Coast and give birth to an entire genre called gangsta rap.

I listen to a lot of Eighties hip-hop. I listened to a lot of Ice-T.