I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
ICE CUBEI love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
ICE CUBEThere’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.
ICE CUBESometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
ICE CUBEIf I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.
ICE CUBEI have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
ICE CUBEYou 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.
ICE CUBEIf you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there’s nothing better than breaking through. There’s no better feeling than breaking through.
ICE CUBEI have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
ICE CUBEThe best thing I’ve done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
ICE CUBEI think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
ICE CUBEThe 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.
ICE CUBEI identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
ICE CUBEI do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.
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.
ICE CUBEOur 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.
ICE CUBEA lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.
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