I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.
ICE CUBEI wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.
ICE CUBEDon’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
ICE CUBEI’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 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.
ICE CUBEI 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.
ICE CUBEI identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
ICE CUBEThere’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.
ICE CUBEAny 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.
ICE CUBEI 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.
ICE CUBEA bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
ICE CUBEIf you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.
ICE CUBEI’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
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 CUBEIf you really look at my lyrics, nobody’s exempt. Nobody’s exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
ICE CUBEI grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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.
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