110+ Ice T Quotes On Jimmy Fallon, Raps And Activism

Ice T is an American rapper, actor and record producer. He is best known for his pioneering gangsta rap and his work in the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has released 8 studio albums and is considered an influential figure in both rap and hip-hop culture. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ice T on jimmy fallon, life, raps.

Top 10 Ice T Quotes

1. I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
2. in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape
3. If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
4. I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
5. Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
6. A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
7. ...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
8. The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.
9. Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.
10. Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

Ice T Short Quotes

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
• The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."
• Diet food is for lazy people.
• It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.
• There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.
• Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.
• The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
• I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
• Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
• I have to grow with my audience.

Ice T Quotes About Life

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. — Ice T

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out. — Ice T

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life. — Ice T

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world. — Ice T

You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about. It's pop and pop just says that we could be actors. We could sing about stuff and not believe in it. It could be absolutely fraudulent and it doesn't really matter. — Ice T

Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers. — Ice T

You can't get what you want all the time in life. — Ice T

You can't just sing the song and live another life. — Ice T

I was a pretty bad person early in my life. — Ice T

Ice T Quotes About Raps

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party. — Ice T

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. — Ice T

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. — Ice T

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. — Ice T

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing. — Ice T

When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass. — Ice T

I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years. — Ice T

I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes. — Ice T

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. — Ice T

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about. — Ice T

Ice T Quotes About Record

It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer. — Ice T

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio. — Ice T

When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously. — Ice T

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands. — Ice T

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system. — Ice T

There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous? — Ice T

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived. — Ice T

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records. — Ice T

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. — Ice T

Ice T Quotes About Sell

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie. — Ice T

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. — Ice T

Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group. — Ice T

Ice T Quotes About Movie

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. — Ice T

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them. — Ice T

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous. — Ice T

A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'. — Ice T

People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you. — Ice T

Ice T Quotes About Streets

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. — Ice T

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble. — Ice T

My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road. — Ice T

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating. — Ice T

I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game. — Ice T

You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that. — Ice T

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. — Ice T

Ice T Famous Quotes And Sayings

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors. — Ice T

I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money. — Ice T

I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the people say. I'll say my opinion. That will always make you controversial. — Ice T

With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you. — Ice T

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that. — Ice T

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women. — Ice T

You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power. — Ice T

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that. — Ice T

What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point. — Ice T

You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it. — Ice T

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious. — Ice T

Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now. — Ice T

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too. — Ice T

You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard. — Ice T

I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture. — Ice T

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop. — Ice T

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living. — Ice T

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly. — Ice T

I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation. — Ice T

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?! — Ice T

When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men. — Ice T

When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up. — Ice T

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt. — Ice T

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it. — Ice T

Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops. — Ice T

I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black. — Ice T

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. — Ice T

I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop. — Ice T

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. — Ice T

You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears. — Ice T

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about. — Ice T

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run. — Ice T

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is. — Ice T

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage. — Ice T

I'm a big Brad Pitt fan. He's really talented. I think a lot of men are intimidated by him, saying he's just a pretty boy or whatever, but he is a bad man. I think he can act. — Ice T

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult. — Ice T

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude. — Ice T

I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously." — Ice T

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU — Ice T

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you." — Ice T

It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, "Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life." — Ice T

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real. — Ice T

Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things. — Ice T

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it. — Ice T

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up. — Ice T

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. — Ice T

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. — Ice T

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get. — Ice T

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. — Ice T

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about. — Ice T

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars. — Ice T

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry. — Ice T

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law. — Ice T

I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other. — Ice T

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty. — Ice T

I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something. — Ice T

Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police. — Ice T

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's. — Ice T

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit. — Ice T

Winners have to absorb losses. — Ice T

Life Lessons by Ice T

1. Ice T has been an influential figure in the music industry, demonstrating the power of hard work and dedication to achieve success.
2. He has also been an advocate for social justice, using his platform to raise awareness of important issues and inspire positive change.
3. Ice T has shown that it is possible to use art and creativity to make a difference in the world.