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My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.

Ice Cube

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
If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.
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Born Myself People Understand
You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It’s always extra cool… always a treat.
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Myself Seeing Tired Treat
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.
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Believe Black Myself Pencil People Sharp Talk White
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
Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.
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Body Bury Money Race Root
I know my flavor’s going to work because I just know there’s not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what’s that about you.
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Different Figure Original 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
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
You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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Acceptance Children Family Myself Woman
To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
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Magic Man Myself Perfection
Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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Laughter Reality Time Yourself
Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.
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Fair Place Race Sports Time
I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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Freedom Frustration Music Myself
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
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

My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.

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