Ice T Quotes

If you want to relate me to the newer cats, let's go. Let's go line for line and bar for bar. If it's all about spitting and metaphors and MCing and lyrics and entendres, I will eat 99 percent of you dudes up.

Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

If you actually understand and listen to what he's saying, there's no one that can compete with Eminem. That's why no one goes at Eminem because everybody knows Eminem is just, he's too good in a rap battle.

To me, I'm on a whole different level of rapping.

I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a sword. And so I say that we have the best lyrics, so, therefore, we are the Wu-Tang Clan.

Rappers should sit down and construct quality lines.

Not anyone can rap to my beats.

Big Sean could get on a verse with anybody and probably annihilate them.

But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

It's only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I'm one of 'em; the other four you know who you are; but if you gotta think twice (well) shawty ya ain't nice; regardless of ya publishin' deal ya can't write

My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.

These other rappers getting bodied and carried away.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.