If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
ICE CUBEI am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.
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Our household is built on love and respect. And we don’t really let negative vibes stay too long. It’s worked out. I got a great family, great kids.
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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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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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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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I’ve been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers – not prove them wrong, because I don’t think you should get your energy from negative people.
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If 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.
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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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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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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
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Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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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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I 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.
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You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.
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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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Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.
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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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I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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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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Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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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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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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You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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