Ice-T Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

Ice-T: When I'm on stage, some kid watching who doesn't have a deal could be playa-hatin' but that's understandable.

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

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: 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: That's when I really knew that people will always judge you for what you do, but as long as you do it well, ain't nobody's gonna be mad at you.

Ice-T: So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Ice-T: Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

Ice-T: It's more scary but a little more fulfilling than music to me because music is audio excitement, but film is more dramatic.

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

Ice-T: I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

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

Ice-T: I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Ice-T: I was really scared of doing a movie because it was my first test of branching off.

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

Ice-T: I have to grow with my audience.

Ice-T: I don't know, Germany is like the #1 Metal country, and BC had a #2 record over there last year. We've toured extensively in Europe.

Ice-T: I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

Ice-T: But even with the craziness, it's still Ice-T. It's real.

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: 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.

Trivia

Ice-T was the voice of Madd D. Dog in the video game Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

In an interview Ice-T said his trademark is that he often reflects himself in his songs.

Ice-T had a few lines on the Arsenio Hall song "Dope, The Big Lie".

Ice-T has a new CD out called The Pimp Penal Code.

Ice-T will be hosting the Second Annual players Toast Awards in Las Vegas.

Ice-T is married to a swim suit model named Nicole Austin also known as Coco.

Ice-T, known for his controversial music was the first rapper to perfrom in front of cameras at the notorious C-Walk in the 80’s.

Ice-T's daughter's name is Letesha and his son's name is Tracy Marrow Jr. and is nicknamed Little Ice.

Ice-T chose his pseudonym in honor of author Iceberg Slim (pen name of Robert Maupin Beck III, 1918-1992), an ex-pimp turned author whose heavy-hitting novels detailed the hard life of the criminal underworld.

Ever since Ice-T was dropped from Time Warner, he has released all of his subsequent albums on his own label Coroner Records.