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

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."

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.

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.