Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.".

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

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 ….

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

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

The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can ou….

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history..

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 aun….

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..

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 ….

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

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too..

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them..

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place..

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 go….

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….

Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype….

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it..

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 ba….

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it..

Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes; it’s looking out in….