Ice Cube Quotes

I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.

I knew I was going to be a 2019 XXL Freshman.

From what I remember, I remember always being a big fan of Kardinal Offishall. He just had that different flow and different flavor. He put himself on the record and that's the type of energy that we love.

The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"

The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.

What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.

I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'

I just want to do a movie musical and then if I could do some recording stuff, that would be amazing! I would die a happy woman! I really would. It doesn't take much!

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

I'd like to continue to act and also produce.

I don't think I really knew I was going to be a rapper until sixth grade. Even then, it was still kind of - I was in sixth grade. I was always saying I was going to become a rapper.

I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an actor in a way that Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep do.

I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.

Everybody knows how hard Jay Rock is.

I had an acting career for a little while back in the '90s. I had gotten into that because I was interested in acting, but I was not really as centered as I needed to be to fully pursue that career, and I was doing some films I thought were not of the best quality.

We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star.

I always wanted to be a Freshman because XXL is really important in the history of hip-hop. It embodies the culture.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.