Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
ICE CUBEI’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.
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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.
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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’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.
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Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.
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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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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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I’m always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who’s just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
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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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