With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.

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

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.

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.

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

I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.