Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

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

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.

One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.

Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.