Top 51 Ice Rap Quotes
#1. I got ice in my veins
Blood in my eyes/Hate in my heart
Love in my mind
Lil' Wayne
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?"
About as much as the Bicentennial.
Ice Cube
#5. Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
Vanilla Ice
#6. Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
Ice Cube
#7. If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
Ice-T
#8. Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.
Ice-T
#9. 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
#10. I'm a menace to society,
But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me.
After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing ...
You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King.
Ice Cube
#11. Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
Ice Cube
#12. 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 out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.
Ice-T
#13. 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
#14. That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it was street-level journalism, real-life observations told in poetry. That's the vision I tried to bring to all my recordings.
Ice-T
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
Ice Cube
#18. 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
#19. We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.
Ice Cube
#20. Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.
Ice-T
#21. I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is black. I recognize that and respect that. I'm just a white guy trying to rap, and I got lucky.
Vanilla Ice
#22. Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.
Ice Cube
#23. I got Lamborghini dreams, eastside nightmares
Movin white ... my ice is cool as the night air
Roc Marciano
#24. Rap game Julio Franco, Chuck Norris, Texas Ranger/ Ice on my fingers look like I slap-boxed a penguin.
Riff Raff
#25. A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
Ice-T
#26. Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.
Ice Cube
#27. I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
Vanilla Ice
#28. I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
Ice-T
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.
Ice Cube
#32. You the devil in drag.
You can burn your cross,
Well, I'll burn your flag ...
Ice Cube
#33. I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
Ice-T
#34. I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.
Ice Cube
#35. 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
#36. "Ice" came in when my friends would say "cold as ice" - if you could rap and battle people you'd say "Dude, that was ice cold." It had nothing to do with jewelry. Back then, it was like "Your cold, dawg." "Vanilla Ice - that's cold."
Vanilla Ice
#37. You know it ain't no stoppin'
All the doggs I'm droppin'
It's Friday night, so everything is poppin.
Ice Cube
#38. You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
Ice-T
#39. Full moons, skunk weed all up in the room;
You got the munchies, baby? Ice cold milk and Lorna Doones.
Ghostface Killah
#40. Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
Ice-T
#41. Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics.
Vanilla Ice
#42. Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their lyrics.
Ice-T
#43. I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
Ice Cube
#44. 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
#45. But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
Ice Cube
#46. I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.
Ice Cube
#47. Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.
Ice-T
#48. A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
Ice Cube
#49. Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.
Ice Cube
#50. When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
Ice-T
#51. Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans.
Ice Cube
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