I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
ICE CUBEI’m not actually from Compton – I’m from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I’m there all the time.
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I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.
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There’s things people say in the barbershop they won’t even say in their own living room, because it’s just one of those zones where nobody’s going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.
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I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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I am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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I’m not actually from Compton – I’m from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I’m there all the time.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.
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Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.
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