You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.
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.
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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 think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
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A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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A 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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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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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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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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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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When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.
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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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The 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.
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If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.
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