Quotes

[on the controversy created by "Cop Killer"] When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you KNOW the s--t has hit the fan!"

[on the 1992 Los Angeles riots] Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

[on his Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) co-star, Richard Belzer] Belzer's the best. He's Jewish and I'm Black, so the Klan's after both of us. Belzer is a G, an old-school cat who knows the game. He's very controversial in his comedy, and me in my music. So I think we just naturally clicked.

I can tell you how to become a millionaire in as much time as it takes a woman to have a baby. One catch: the nine-month plan ends in a funeral.

[on his contribution to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)] I bring a lot of shit to the show. I'm the only person on the show probably anybody under 20 knows who they are. I bring black people and ethnic people. I bring an edge to the show, because at any moment I might smack the shit out of somebody. When I got on the show, it was in the 40s. Now it's top 10. So I brought something.

[on his documentary Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012)] As I watched the movie I saw the medicine sinking in..noticed that people were starting to listen to the words. The words started to just just kind of come off the screen in a way I don't think that people ever listen to rap.

I want people who come to see my movies to sit down and be like, 'Come on Ice, do what you do. Take us some-fucking-where-else and don't hold the shit back'.

I don't want so sing about girls and parties. I want to sing about movements. I want to sing about Wall Street. I want to sing about the shit that's happening in the war.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

To me, doing another record is like hustling backwards, because I've done it so many times. I've had gold and platinum records. The accolade isn't going to ring true.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.