#m

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. ↗

— Ice T

#cats #hip #hip hop #hop #i

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. ↗

— Ice T

#cinema #familiar #future #hollywood #i

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult. ↗

— Ice T

#art form #because #been #difficult #feel

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week. ↗

— Ice T

#i #me #mean #over #something

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. ↗

— Ice T

#beat #better #could #figured #first

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. ↗

— Ice T

#go #got #growing #growing up #harden

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff. ↗

— Ice T

#connected #hip-hop #i #i think #more

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. ↗

— Ice T

#albums #career #could #i #rap

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. ↗

— Ice T

#black #born #families #grew #house

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ↗

— Ice T

#brother #came #dude #family #father