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I’m always the “less is more” guy when it comes to a scene. So I’ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I’m still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

Ice Cube

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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Comedy Darkness Fantasy Funny Ourselves Protest Record
If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.
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Live Love Myself Time
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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Career Change Early Inspirational Music People Try
I been all around the world and I haven’t found a city that I’d rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
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Myself Travel World
The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it’s already there. You can see it with your own eyes.
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Eyes Hard Present Reality Record Yourself
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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Legacy Mess Scare Yourself
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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Goodness Pay Place School Time Yourself
There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to show it.
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Brilliant People Potential Smart Talent
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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Father Myself Time
The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That’s when you can go crazy if you don’t allow the creative juices to flow.
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Crazy Creativity Flow Hard Juice Writing Yourself
I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
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Bottom Identify Money Myself
I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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Ability Myself Potential Right Self Love
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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Judgement Live Oneself Opinion People
If you really look at my lyrics, nobody’s exempt. Nobody’s exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
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Correct Criticism Lyrics Observation Thinking Yourself
Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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Allow Choice Myself Survive
I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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Career Enlightenment Love Myself Start Time

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