Ice-T Part 2

Published Apr 5, 2023, 5:23 AM

In part two of Ice-T's Questlove Supreme interview, he speaks about transitioning to acting. Ice opens up about working on New Jack City and other films while discussing working with Dick Wolf and Law & Order for a quarter-century. The O.G. also speaks about being embraced as a pitch-man and giving free game with his new podcast.

Of course, Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. What's up, y'all? We're back with part two. Of course Love Supreme with the legendary Ice Tea. Yep, Ice gave it so much game we decided to make this a two part or so. It makes sense, you know, because ICE's Daily Game is a new podcast where he offers daily wisdom. Make sure y'all check out part of one. We'll we talk about Ices upbringing his music, and here's part two where I see to gives us a sample of that Daily Game. All right? Of course Love Supreme Part two with the legendary Ice Tea. How easy was it? And transitioning to acting, like did it take long for Mario to convince you to do New Jack City? You got great questions because first off, I'm not no motherfucking acting like I mean, everybody looks at TV goes I wish I could do that, But who has a chance to do it? You know? So I've been in the breaking movies and the breaking movies. I was called featured rap talker. How about that? Right? They didn't even know what a rapper was? Right? So you heard the story about New Jack City? Well, I know about George Jackson's coining the term, but please, please please. I'm in a toilet stall in a club and some niggas is talking shit to me in the toilet, I'm taking a shit. I'm sitting there, and motherfucker's was like, ice you cold man, you'll be telling this that. I say, your player. The problem is that they could take a microscope and find one molecule in my body that gave a fuck, then they'd have a chance. But there's not one. And so Mario overhears that and says, whoever said that? If are my movie? Whoever said that? And it was me. So I'm in the club campaigning to three girls, right, I'm I'm talking this ship to these chicks, and Mario comes up with the Hollywood bullshit. I'm producing a movie. I want you to be in it. I'm like that some bullshit like you trying to let these girls know you're a producer. Yeah, Mario don't. Yeah, but I knew quest. You know the Hollywood bullshit when somebody walks up in the middle of your conversation with somebody, Hey, we should work like shut the fuck up, like you can find me if you want to work like this is so stage. So I'm like, okay, ladies, this is Mario Van People's Dotty Dotty. But he wasn't lying, so he hands me a card. So he calls me call Warner Brothers tomorrow. So I call it. They say come up here and blow. I come on this. I come through the gates. I get there and they show me the script. They want you to play Scottie. I read that shit quest. I was like, yo, this is all the words, like I thought it was a cameo. Nah, nah, this is a star. I'm like, I can't act, Yes, you can. I keep reading this. Niggas the Police, Yeah yeah, I got an album coming out called Original Gangster. You Wann't play Police? Wait a minute? Hoh whad he got dreads? I got a firm like everything. So I'm just totally like, na, no, I can't do this. But then I talked to people and they were like, man, if you fuck up this. Back at the Beauty Parliament where I got most of my game, I had this hairdresser named Pearl and she said, you niggas running around here talking about no opportunities, no opportunities, and here's one, and you're gonna turn this down if you turn this down, you're a real live sucker, because this is a great opportunity. Niggas know you ain't the police, nigga, you better go up in there and do that gig and then I'll talk to my boys. They're like I said, man, they want me to play the police, and niggas be like, word can, I'll be in the movie. That's all they So I did the movie, and I was scared shitless that it was going to end my career because at that time, no rapper had taken a dramatic role. Yet hold on, hold on, hold on, hold hold on, hold on, hold on, No, he's right, he is right Smith. The only thing run DMC did tougher than leather and all that old ship acting like somebody else does not. Nobody was the first. I told you, I'm on my first ship. Usually the first one who's the pioneer never gets the just desserts that the person that comes behind them does. So that is risky that you want to be first. But I always see history as the second person that masters it. But I did it, POC did it. Everybody started doing it back in the day when when being a rapper like you want to act like you was betraying the culture, like you. It wasn't. It just wasn't. At that time, rappers wasn't even owning their own label. It was like rappers were very in its own zone. So they got me, They got Chris Rock, who is the newest underground. You know. Kat Wesley had only done two movies, Major League and a Spike Lee flot so they didn't trip off this. They didn't have enough black actors to make the movie. Now we could do Black Panther. There were not enough young black actors that had any potential to pull a crowd. So they said iced tea selling millions of records, right, you know, and Alan Payne and Vanessa Williams couldn't have done it alone, right, Astley Wesley. So they used the power of the rapping Me and Chris being hot on the street, George Jackson and Doug McKenny. They put us in the row, and uh, the shit popped off. I was scared as fuck. The movie made eighty seven million dollars. I got paid twenty five thousand dollars. Wow. So by the time you get the trespass and surviving the game and surviving again, Yeah, that's my favorite Ice Team movie that's surriving game is the one about this the second movie with Ricochet with Denze Can I ask how how is Hollywood? Because the thing is now it's nothing for rappers like for people to pivot into other areas and other mediums. But how's the reception to you coming into their territory? Hollywood? Simple? If if the movie you're in makes money, you're gonna be in another movie. That's his Hollywood. It's like his money. It's pimpant. If this whole can make me some money here, maybe you can make me some money there. They don't. They don't care. You know. Uh, they can't really tell what great acting is. They can tell what the fan response is, so they that works cool. So you know, New Jack City was a hit in comes some scripts. Let's see if he could do it again. So I walked into Joe Silver's office, one of the biggest producers, and I said, okay, New Jack City. They fucked me right, but I know I'm about to get paid. I'm with Denzel's about to get paid that. The motherfucker looked at me and said, Ice Tea, You've done one movie. So I bent over and took it again I got for for for Ricochet, I got twice what I got for New Jack City, and I didn't work as much. My pay day didn't come till I did Tank Girl where I played the roup lo Where was that in the Surviving the game? Trustpad, I'm trying to remember tank I'm where it was and it was tank Girl Surviving the Game. Then I Girl did Johnny Knewmonic with Keanu Reeves, and then I did I was doing Johnny Numonic with Keanu Reeves and they called me, they say, will you play a stripper in Arizona. I'm like, hell yeah, this is my chance to hella what it looked like. I was on slow. You've seen a riginal gangster posters, so I was on my bullshit. So that night I did like a thousand crunches. I'm like, I'm about to let these ladies know what's happening. Right. So the next day they sent me a picture of a kangaroo. I'm like, what the fuck am I stripper? Like? I opened my pouch like, what the fuck is this? And they know it's a ripper. It's a kangaroo. And the movie's called tank Girl, right because you played a mixture. Yeah, you was a right. You gotta understand. I'm with Keanu Reeves doing a big motion picture. Now they're telling me to do something called tank Girl as a kangaroo. Ye, Like, can y'all at your motherfucking mind? Like what's really good? And then they told me how much I was gonna get and uh, I was hopping around the hotel, you know, because they're like, when you sell out? I see, selling out is when something is totally against your beliefs, right when they can make you be quiet. I have nothing against fucking kangaroos. I have nothing at all against them. So I was like, fuck this, I'll be a motherfuck kangaroo and I got a bag for that. That's the first mill plus role. I'll say that. You know, America's now just adapted to festival lifestyle, but you know, you're a pioneer and the fact that you were one of the very first acts on Lallapalooza, which is really America's first true I mean, I mean, besides you know, farm Aide or you know whatever, but what was that the experience of Lollapaluza, Like especially that first year where all this stuff was brand new to American culture. There's always a story behind Ice t Ship. But I like people to know so they can get a true understanding how this game is, because it's not as simple as that. Ernie body Count was now just starting. We were we were playing like pizza joints and just getting getting a vibe for what this band was. And Ernie had met Perry Farrell. Right, Harry Carroll was doing a video called The Gift where he wanted someone to sing Nigga Whitey with him. Slides sone shit, yeah right. So Ernie says, Iced Tea, Iced Tea's hardcore. This is the perfect person. So I come to the video shoot. I know the song. I got no problem singing it with him, and we sang nigga Whitey backup, gonna call me nigga Whitey, Don't call me whitey nigga. So we doing this shit. So after we did the video, he says, Ice, I'm about to do a tour called Lollapalooza. It's gonna have butthole Surfers, Rollins band. He was naming bands he wanted to get and he said, I want to take a rapper out, would you like to go? I'm like, hell, yeah, hell yeah. So what happened was I had an hour set fifty five minutes set, and then they said you could do whatever you want, and I split the set and I did half iced tea half body Count. That's where I introduced body Count to the world. And after I would do my rap set, I said, now I'm about to prove to you that rock and roll has nothing to do with color. It's a state of mind. And we turned the guitars up and blow and that was it. You ain't want to remind them rock and rolls aren't some gonna jump anyway. So well, you know, hip hop is rock, whether people want to claim it or not. You don't aren't be the mic. We rocked the mic, We rocked the house. Rock. See, pop is when you sing what everybody wants to hear. This is what I learned this from Quincy Jones. Pop is easy to do. Sing what people want to hear. Go to school, love your mother, Da da da. That's pop. Be popular. Rock is fuck that. I'm gonna do this shit my fucking way. That's rock. Now, whether you do that with pianos, whether you do that with guitars, or you do that with a mic. Or some drums. Hip hop is rock period, all right. I know, I know you've been asked a trillion times about the cop killer incident, but why no, No, I know, but you know, I also feel like that doesn't define you, especially now. But you know, you know what it is though. You only get stripes for fighting battles, you know what I'm saying. So I'm very proud of my battles, you know, because that was a moment where I could have got taken out, you know, like not even just my career. They were trying to get rid of a nigga, you know. That's what I want to know, Like, how serious? How rare did he get? The worst ship was bomb threats to Warner Brothers where they had to clear the building on several occasions, or what they were threatening to blow up Warner Brothers and they had to clear the build holding on several occasions on account of me because they were getting bomb threats. Yeah, it got heavy. Um who's threatening because we're talking about the authority, So who is the threat? That's an interesting part. This is something you gotta understand with beef. If you create beef, you might not have problems with the people you're beefing with you have a problem with outside of let's say hypothetically, I gotten a beef with let's say method man, who's one of my good friends. I ain't gotta worry about running the meth. I could run into some wu tang things. I could run into somebody who who who loves him at a restaurant. I could run into some girls that fuck you ice. It can happen. So when you just the cops, you can run into somebody whose brothers a cop, an X cop, somebody who's just you set up energy of beef out there. You don't know where it's gonna You never just beefing with one person, Yeah right, you're beefing with their fans, right every fucking so I was, you know when we did cop Killer and they made it a big thing by it becoming so public, it gave more people a chance to dislike me. You know, it wasn't a small thing. It went national. Now you gotta understand its levels of news, Like all this shit's on the black blogs, that's nigga news. That's that news. You you ain't gonna know about that, But when it makes it to CNN, that's national news. Follow what I'm saying. So a lot of this I gotta do it. I gotta do a parallel, folks. It's kind of like, well, Kerann, I gotta do the white parallel because we can't just do nigga news. We gotta do cracker news too. So yeah, I just yeah, okay, I got you though. But the certain blogs that we listened to, yes, right, yes, if you talk to somebody in the mainstream, they have no idea that such and such as beat or they don't know about that stuff. TMZ starting to leak a little bit of our business out there. But you who's cheating on who? They don't care that makes money? Right? National news is coming on right after the war, and uh, you know Ukraine, Warren Roukane, now I see you and Warner Brothers. This is now. Now you're in front of the world. This is big shit. So you gotta know, like a lot of the stuff that we take as big isn't really that big. It's kind of like cultural, you know, and it hasn't really made it to the to the main stream. This ship was big. The President was on my bumper, you know, we were let me date myself. We were playing techno bowl quest and my boy comes downstairs, like, yo, the president is on TV talking about ice and we ran upstairs and Quail so the ice to you. So Quail's like ice to you, And all the homies in the house was like, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. See, very few people will ever have a living president say their name and anger. That's saved for like terrorists and been laden and shit like that. When the president is mad at you, fuck the police, you have the United States government on your bumper. I got tax audited twice that year. I had ice cream trucks sitting in front of my house in the middle of the winter. These motherfuckers is on you. They're trying because when a president says questlove, this guy's a problem. All the FBI, DA, all of them do background checks because the next question could be what do we know about him? They can't say he plays on Tonight Show, he's a drumming, his shoe size, is this, his blood type? Is this? This happens? When that happens, you feel it. You feel the government looking you up and down to try to find out because they had to check and seat. Was I really trying to make a call to arms? Was I telling people go kill the cops in my problem, which I was, and I was just making a record. Oh wait, did you did you feel vindicated because Rodney King happens a year later? No, they blamed Rodney King on me. They spun it to make it seem like I made that record because of Rodney King. I got caught in a big It was a it was a political year of the Paternal Order of Police out of Texas. Spun it. They spun it and made it seem like I caused the riots. They they they was on a bullshit. They had a big machine. But see here's the trip. They weren't really mad at me. They were mad at Warner Brothers because they were like, Okay, we understand iced Tea should be mad, but why White company give him the platform to say this? And that became the death of Warner Brothers. You gotta remember when I did that. Warner Brothers had Prince, Warner Brothers had Slayer, they had the Ghetto Boys, they had Sam Kenniston, they had anything that was edgy. And that ended, and and and and when the last thing was when they dropped the deal with Interscope, when that was all happening, when Ted Turner came in. Warner Brothers had to separate from anything controversial, costing me. I started to wow. But for a second, did it feel like your bag was about to stop in terms of like people were not take were you losing roles? Where you? Yah? New Jack City Part two? So there was going to be a sequel? Yeah? I didn't know that, me neither, but Nino lived. Well wait, you knew this about? Yeah? I saw, I saw George Jackson and they they did an interview. This was years ago, but they mentioned it then, but it never But what happened was Wesley went off and he did Demolition Man and made seven million, and you know, I was in trouble. So now they can't hit Wesley's number because the whole movie knew Jack was made for five million. Everything happened, but now you know I got You know what happened though, It's like when you get in some shit like this. I never pointed in any other rappers. I never pointed in any other rock groups because I'm like, Yo, this is my heat, and you know, to me, that's kind of like like snitching. It's kind of like, Yo, you got caught, nigga, handle your business. Take it. This is your ship, so you never seen nice? But what about this group or what about now? I'm like, okay, you on me, let's go fuck it. But the way they came at me, I didn't know if I was gonna survive, you know what I'm saying. But I just had to stand my ground and I and I remember I met with Minister Farkhan at Honorable Elijah Muhammad's house and in all honestly, he just told me, he said, yet what you did wasn't subtle. If you stand in the street, expect to get hit by car. So I had to learn that we have freedom of speech, but watch what you say and you have I had the right to sing cop killer, but they also had the right to attack. So anything you say, prepare for the ramifications of what you say. And I was not prepared for the ramifications. I was just singing some shit and I wasn't ready for them to attack. So that's a lesson. You know, you could say anything. We all have the right to say anything, but you also gotta be if you say something anti gay, be prepared. You did what I'm saying, if I mentioned any rapper's name, be prepared. So just gonna be reckless talking and shit and think there won't be no smoke, you know, And if I do say it, I should be ready for that smoke, you know. If I'm Colin pack Happernick and I dropped down and I'm gonna hop pull a kneel, I gotta know that NFL is gonna make a move on me, and I gotta be strong enough to handle that. Or I shouldn't do it. They don't do it, you know, So don't don't protest and get fired. And now because you got fired, because to protest you gotta you gotta be prepared for the hits. There's gonna be a hit back, or you're not really protesting nothing. So I had to drop some gyms there for us. I wanted to ask about the Home Invasion record because that one came on Priority. Um what led to that change from Warner to Prity because after Cop Killer, Warner was scared to put my records out. So what happened was I came in with Home Invasion because now I'm consecutive. I had every record I put out with Gold and a power term Platinum. I'm hot over there. But they just went through some shit. Body count itself now if so, it's so gold twice. It went gold with cop Killer and went gold without cop Killer on it. I'm making money over there for them. And I came in and they had my lyrics written on these big boards. They wrote it out. They was and uh, I had some foulet. I had this one rhyme in G style where I say I give a fuck about a cop or a G man. They all talk shit, They're breath smelling like seamen. I catch them in the alley all alone. Put him in the prone pop pop pop to the dome. So I'm still killing cops, right, I'm sorry, you know that's that's what I do. So they pull this lyric out, that lyric out, this lyric out, and I was just like, you know what, can I go? You as to go? Yeah? I said, can I go? Because now I'm in a difficult place. They never a and R at any of my music. It was just good go body. Counter put out an album called cop Killer. I love it over there. I'm in a great play, but now should change. So Home Invasion was coming right after cop Killer, so they let me go. Was Benny Medina part of any of these meetings Benny Medina was the A and R guy back in the day, but he never A and RM me because he was Warner, not uh not sire. Benny was a good cat up there. He did the uptown thing. And Benny was always a friend of mine, and he was cool with me. Okay, but I'm dealing with Moe Austen and Lenny Warnaker. I'm dealing with the top guys, and they were They really didn't want me to go, but they were. It was kind of like it was a fucked up situation. I was getting them in trouble and I'll never forget they would like, as soon as we allow them to censor you, we're up here, We're up shit Creek and and and Warner stayed down with me, even um Gerald Levin wrote a big thing in the in the Wall Street Journal, the CEO of Time Warner backing me up. And I just felt like, it's kind of like me and you were friends question and I'm getting you in trouble, man, And I'm just like looking, no, no, I'm just gonna bail man. I got because I gotta still do me. I got, I gotta It's like Dave Chappelle, I gotta go because I gotta I gotta do me because my career is based on my integrity and I can't have y'all sensor and my shit. So I'd go to priority. Brian Turner did NWA and all them. They were still opening wide and they were ready and they took the record. But I'll tell you what Warner did and nobody knows this. They didn't charge me for the album. So normally, let's say they gave me half a million dollars to make that album. That was a lot of money back in the days. Now people are getting threes and five millions to make records. But any half a million, I didn't have to recoup it. They let you keep your tapes and just go to Yeah, So that was that was fly. They didn't say, hey, you could take this album, but we gotta get the money back. They just let me have it. So I took it over there, and um, I was fighting with the source, and you know, the source was talking shit because they yeah, they said I folded. They were like ice gave in, and you know, and Chuck kept me saying because Chuck d said those that aren't in the war should never come in on the battles they don't and what the fuck is really going on in here? Yes, that's why. On the record you like Home Invasion, the first song is called It's On. And that's why I was like, Yo, we can't take any cut off the products. You know what we're gonna do. I I still got soldiers, you know, turn up to Mike Dog so I can go off. Find me Charlton Heston and I might cut his head off. You know, I'm not to be fucked with. I was on my bullshit. I was mad, you know, and you know I say, uh, worst magazine. You're the first one you tried to disc Chuck Cuban me how to fuck you? Pick us three? You pump motherfuckers. Ain't shit. You just a bunch of holes making money off the pros. And when I see you get you in my sights, I'll give you as a story to write. It's On. So I remember how how shocking was it for you? Some like nineteen years later, the sort of live through ninety nine problems now becoming you know, kind of an anthem. I trust that you're one of the publishers of ninety nine problems. Yeah, and you know what it is quest Now everybody's trying to turn that into beef. It ain't beef. It's it's no, it's no beef. It's a story, and the story I never knew there was beef. I thought he credit I thought he sampled you or covering the song. The new podcast people like to take clips of what you say and then switched. It looked like jay Z stole the song. No, he cleared it. Can't do that. Did. Chris rock Ever tells that story on his episode nine nine. Problems come from Brother Marquise, Right, and Brother Marquise was at my house and he was talking about whoop there it is? You know where that record comes from the original one from Tag Team? That's the canoe. I'm ready. It was all right. Tag Team was the where the DJ's in Magic City? Okay, And when the girls been over, they say, and you've seen it, they say, whoop there it is. That's where it came from. Okay, that's where it came from. When you could see the coach who it is? They turned that into the song. So Marquis is sitting in my house and he's like, man, all the nights I sat in Magic City and they saying that shit nigga. That was the phrase. It pays man. So he's talking. Then out of nowhere, he said, man, I got nine nine problems. A bitch ain't one though, and he said it. I said, that's a song. So I made the song. You know, I gotta hold from the East, I gotta hold from the West. I gotta hope from Alabama with a pussy in the chest. So I'm saying, so I make the record. And then Marquise did a verse right fun. It was on Home Invasion. Those icy fans knew it. The legend goes Chris Rock was in the studio with Rick Rubin when and they had Jay coming in and they brought that song up to be remade. The song was remade. They paid publishing publishing with M I had a deal with I think Universal Publish A point seen money gone. That was it. That's how it happened. So I'm at the Grammys, jay Z walks up to me. He's like, Iice you know, I love you, man, I love you because I met Jay way back with Big Daddy King brought him through back in the day when he was with Jazzo, right, So I got love for jay Z. I'm you know, so Jay's like, you know, they say, man, I'm like, dude, I'm not mad. This is the press they pushing this shit like that. It's like you know what. And so I was talking to him and I was like, well, Jay, you know, you know you did the record, but at the end of the record, you could have said, I you know, like my nigga like yeah, but you know we laughed it off and stuff. But yo, I mean, you know it's what it is. It's hip hop. Look, I just told you I was influenced by ye think about that, like everybody don't automatically do what you do that way. Yeah, but you know it's all it's all uh yeah, it's out in the open now. I think. Also on that record, he used one of Bunb's lyrics to um from U g K. So you know, it's a technique, it's a style, it's something. It's jay Z. Jay Z's a super rapper, like shit, you know, it ain't like he can't write rhyme. If he doesn't he wants to. He just feels like throwing some other flavor in there. I love Jakes. I mean that's the spirit of hip hop. Like you gotta take a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and build something. Yeah, something new to it. Is there anything that you have yet to accomplish that you want to that's interesting, That's a really good question. Um. I mean you've done everything, even fatherhood. Yeah, I mean you've done fatherhood. But no, no, no, But I mean like you're a new person now with you Dart like you absolutely, Yeah, you're You're a new person. Your Muhammad Ali said when a man has a child in the second half of life, after fifty's, it hits a reset button on his life. And I've gotten healthy, I have a reason to live. She's a whole new your right quest. It's a it's a brand new life for me. Yeah, I gotta live forever. I decided I'm not gonna die. I checked out my my schedule. I'm booked till one hundred so and I ain't seen no funerals on this. So I've been around here. I got some shit to do. I want to ask you too, man yo. Cherryos Yeah, yeah, like Cherry all the commercials because you know Carshield car shields cards go far. And you know, I said, I was, I was, I was watching Shack. It's official watching shock, and he said he had never spent money from the NBA, you know, all endorsements. And I was like, fuck yeah, I need some fucking endorsements, you know. So I called my manager. I said I need it. I need a commercial agent. They won't fuck with you. You the cop killer, it's corporate America. I was like, yo, man, fuck that like seeing somebody ah fuck with me. And the first commercial I got was the Geico the iced tea reading signed right and everybody brace for impact like there's gonna be an outcry. But see, this is what's happened. The guards have changed exactly. The people that are in charge now are like forty eight year old CEOs. That's how we were able to do the Super Bowl. The people that were so scared of emineminem are gone now and our fans are in charge. But Ice. You don't want to give some of that too to like Sergeant tu Tuola, because Tutola has changed a lot of that too. Whatever whatever has done it. I just think it's just that the new people love us. They loved Snoop Dogg. They grew up with us, so there's no fear of us. Right now. We have to put a Cereal out with Ozzy Osbourne a bat Cereal and the and the parents would think it's funny. The kids wouldn't get it, you know. So so I get I start getting these commercials. I get that, uh Tide calls me. Yeah, I'm like wash ice Cold wash Yeah, but it's gotta fit. Yeah, what what do I got to do with that? They say, Washington Ice Cold. I'm like, cool, Okay, stone Cold, Steve Auson's in it. I'm in I'm I'm like stone Cold, I'm in it. Seems like so cool that, like the homie is just like I just happened to be watching the commercial. My homie Ice Tea was doing it, Like is that real? That's mister Biggs, mister Old Sonic Force. He's from New Yes, that's one of the ogs or hip hop. Yes. And card Shield. The agent calls me. They say, they know you got a lot of cards. It's a warranty company. It's basically this, you know, would you do it? I'm like, yeah, fuck that, Yeah, cool, I do it. And I said they gave put insurance on some of my my other cards, like they're fuck with like Mercedes Bands, Range Rover, they fucked with that. So I got a card shield and I done. I done. Yeah, Biggs called me up to you, man, I fucking card shield because I'm see you on TV. You know, transmission went out. Man, they fix that s it's official. I was like, hold that thought. I called them. I said, I got a real testimonial from one of my homies. Y'all got him out and they said we'll put him in a commercial. So they put him in a commercial, paid him and gave him lifetime card shields and Cheerios was just I'm like, how do I fucking feel with Cherios? You're older, you're in great shape, you're still touring. Cheerios is for hearts want to be And I thought of a nigga like me on a Cheerios box, Like, like, some of this shit honestly quests all this thing I'm going through right now. My life is beyond my wildest dreams getting a star, Like really all the reason shit I did up in Hollywood, Like how many times I've been laid flat on them damn stars? Like the shit is crazy, man, But you know what it is, I'll tell you it is. It's it's it's inspirational because you can make a change in your life, and America loves a comeback. They love a comeback. If you if if you you could have been on drugs, you could have been fucked up. But as long as you honestly got your life straight, they will root for you. But don't fuck up again because the large your ass like trash because they rode for you the second time. Right, So I'm on my best behave ice before you go. Can I just ask one two two old a question? At least? Like can I just I'm in my house. You got plenty of time. I'm just going hey, because some of us have watched, like we are faithful and we have watched your evolution and congratulations on being sergeant, and also condolences my brother on losing your friend Richard Belzer. Yeah, like we watch. We watched all together and even behind the scenes, we watched your friendship. So wait a minute, Oh, but weren't you responsible for I put it out there that I wanted to be a dead body on the show. One of y'all made it happen. I did, Thank you. I forgot y'all. I'm a dead body on Law and Order. No, we saw it, So okay, So my question is most challenging storyline on SVU, but too too old for I see. The requests came in from quests and then got on the on the grid up there, and then the line that of course I'm the black guy, so they go Questlove wants to be on the show. What's he like? That's how they always ask, like they don't they want to bring someone on the show, but they don't want it to be Prima Donna. He's extra. I say, he's a great person. I mean, Yo, if you got a chance to put quests on the show, Joe Bow so I can't go, I co signed you because they don't know they bring a nigga out there, nigga might wild out. Yo. Snoop came up there and smoked the whole place out. Yeah that's true. You just gotta know. So all right, So back to my fan out question. Though it was their most challenging storyline, I appreciate. I just want to say how Utuola has became an amazing grandfather to his gay son's husband's and the children and whatnot. But what has been a challenging storyline for you in this journey? Anything that does with children bothers me, you know, I mean, I got a problem with, you know, pedophilia and all that old, weird, old shit. I don't. I don't rock with that. I don't. I don't think street cats fuck with that. That's just real. You know you're not gonna do well in prison with that. You know. You know what the definition of pedophilia is. M. It means you're into things that are preprovescent. M. That's nasty. That's nasty. So anytime we're dealing with that kind of shit, I personally got an issue with that shit. That's nasty to me. And uh I got on that show and the storylines are so crazy and so dark and so weird, but they're real shit. It's real stuff. So um, I'll tell you funny when like one season I come back and they tell me you're getting married, I'm like, to who like Phoebe? I'm like, who's Phoebe? That's the girl from three seasons ago that wasn't going to hook up with you? So when did we get together? Over COVID? The fans know it, so I had to talk. It wasn't kind of suffusing. Shout to Jennifer Esposito. I'm I'm mad. I know everything that goes on in the show. But I'm glad you Jennifer got engaged and we've let that rock out the whole season. Then we didn't get married. But do you get us saying like the direction that your character goes not really? I mean, I'm I've learned to add quests, so I don't really care where my character goes as long as it doesn't die, you know, because where it's like, okay, we gotta talk to you or go to dinner. Like, how do you know if your character is getting because not shot, you get shot, I mean you get shot in the script and you see your shots. Then you go like this, oh shit, okay, breathe, I'm breathing on tape. Shit I survived at you know. But um no, there's a producer or Lauren Order we call the grim Reaper. If he takes to dinner, it's a ra. So when you get taking to dinner, you already know. Yeah, I'm I'm gangster with them. You know. I signed up with Dick Wolf and I'm like his ride or die. I've been on five shows with Dick Wolf, right, so he understands. And I when I told them on some real shit, I said if y'all gonna get rid of me, give me six months advance so I could book a tour or something. Just don't do me. Don't just do me that. I deserve that, And now being the longest running actor in television, they owe me that, you know, you know, so I'm like, I'm good with them. I told Dick Wolf straight up. I told him, I said, I'm on the show to the wheels all off. You know what I'm saying. I'm there. I don't have no plans in leaving. And you know, all things come to an end. We weren't getting ready to start to twenty fifth season, and at some point it'll be over, and then I'm just gonna go out and refall Samuel Jackson's parts. Boys really going to be over. I think that show is basically built to last. Well, as long as you are, Mariska, to be honest, That's what I was warning. I was like, you are, Mariska. I feel like, as long as y'all are, there is there at least an outside of the show a relationship between you and Mariska as well. Yeah. Yeah, I told Mariska's point blank, I say, in my life, I have three women. I have my two daughters and my wife. But I've made more money with you, Marishka. So you've got to understand where you stand in my life. Me and Marishka twenty five years. That's longer than you went to high school college. Who you know that you like, like Quest has been with Jimmy every day. When you start doing the places where you're with somebody every day for years and years and years and years, that's like, I think I've had a longer consistent every day relationship with Tariq than my my parents, like my family, anyone. You've seen him more than all of them. Yeah, that's why I said, And I thought about this, I see. I was like, what does it ic feel like to know that, like, he's been a cop longer than he's been at MC. I mean, were you're always gonna be at MC, but longer than you've been making records. I put it that way. The thing is, I've been acting like a cop. I'm not no motherfucking cop, that's right, tell like a cop. But you know, the thing of it is is that if if you hire if you hire a street cat to play a cop, you get more of an official cop because the cops it's really are really thugs, right, you know? So the way they handle theirselves. If you get a square he and he acts like a cop. He acts like a rookie cop. But as the cops get older, they pick up the lingo. If you ever dealt with a DA you'll swear to God you're talking to drug dealers. If you ever talk to a mob cop, you'll swear to God you're talking to somebody to mob. They pick up the lingo. So Dick Wolf was like, if I cast Ice as a cop, you get a cop with an interesting dynamic. When I'm interrogating somebody, you you the viewer, feel like Ice about to smack the shit out this nigga. LP. Yes, now here's something for you. Acting like a cop and a gangster are the exact same acting. It's both of you got a gun, both of you got an attitude, and both of you say if I don't get what I want, there will be a consequence. So it's an ad it's an energy that is gangster. But you just have a bad same shit. So a lot of times when I'm acting, I'm not thinking like a cop. I'm just like, yo, motherfucker, you gonna do what I want you to do. I'm gonna fucking fuck you up. I love watching that. I just love watching you. I really do, I really do. I just I think for your fans that we just love an evolution, even where they where you are in the police force. Now, beauty of it is for me and LLL is that our fans have matured with us. So you probably with us when we were wrapping, and now you know you're you. You're not necessarily listening to the hip hop like that anymore. But you've grown up and your mother's and this, that and the third. But we're still the people you grew up with. Yeah, our fan base has matured with us, so that. But it's also seeing y'all as whole men too, like seeing you show, feeling, seeing you all the things. It's just beautiful to watch, even if you are acting. But I know that when you will on your house, some of that stuff goes home too, some of me. Yeah, speaking of a home and uh like your marriage, man, how did you make that transition from being in the streets to you know, going straight? Yeah? Yeah. The thing of it is is that when a woman meets the right man, it's the right time. When a man hits the right time, he'll be ready for the right woman. Oh shit, yeah, that's sure. So men we're kind of like no good up to thirty five years old because we have to go through the same thing they went through. See, women, they mature earlier because at seventeen, if a girl's hot, she's in the club, she's she's living the life we can't live. Yeah, in the car with the forty year old niggas, right right, I think about it. I didn't get in the bins until I bought one, you know. So they mature, they mature much faster because life opens for them earlier. When you see all these girls in bikinis laid out on the yacht. Them bitches don't own that yacht. They're on this because take cute. We can't get on the yacht. Right, So the life happens for the But here's the problem. Here's the problem. When y'all is slowing down, we're just taking off. Yeah at twenty seven, when the woman sees thirty and she's like, I need to slow down and figure it out. The guys just getting his bag and so it's a stagger with us. So what happens is I had a girlfriend, Darlene, who was on my covers, and me and her were like together for fifteen years. But I never got married because I already knew what kind of nigga I was, you know, still in you know, moving, Yeah, I just becoming famous. Rule one, don't marry nobody. That's just getting at the beginning of fame. Yeah, yeah, it's you never it's it's an onslaughter pussy and you just have to weather that shit. And you think, anyway, what happens is when I met Coco, when I can make a Coco, I was forty two years old and I was done. I've been to the theme park, I've been to everything, I've done this and now I was ready, and you know, I needed to find somebody. And since she had matured earlier, she had been running when she was seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty one, so when I met her, she was kind of done. And and the words of Pimp and Ken one damn bitches worth ten funky hos, you know what I'm saying. So you know, at some point I chose and and and fortunately it's stuck like glue. We've been matter for twenty two years and crazy man, it's beautiful. It was. It was just it was just the right chick. You know. She she liked me, and like when I met her, I had on a red snakeskin suit. Oh you know I was. I was on some players ship and a video. She's like, oh, that's five let cocoa fund. What's she wrong? What about California? Okay, okay, she could do that, Okay, but she but she liked this. I'm too much for most girls. They like, they gave me herded out of your work mouth is pimping ho and bitches. And she's like, oh, oh top ten shit. She liked she liked me. So I finally found a woman that really accepted me right, and I liked her. She was always you know, she's out there, you know, borderline exhibitions. She likes showing herself. She's fun and I dig it. She ain't right for everybody. So a lot of times people would come to me and go, we'll give me some advice as I can. I can tell you how. I can tell you how to be married to my wife. I can't tell you how to be married to your wife. I know what it takes to make her happy, but I don't know what you might be dealing with. So but you know, we always say men settle where they find peace. And my wife does not argue, she doesn't raise her voice. She's very peaceful, she's very nice and week and she has me happy, has me wanting to stay in the house and play video games. And she's enough for me. And uh, what you play? What games? What games you want? What you'll be on? Oh? Yeah, first person shooters? Oh okay, you the shooters? Okay, gotcha? But um, you know one thing about relationships, don't brag on them because you'll jinx yourself. Oh god, you got a priest this word. Come on. You know I'm in a good place. But I mean, you know, you ever noticed, like when you watch basketball wives, none of them are really the wives. Yes, because the wives aren't doing no fucking interviews. The wives are happy, they're in the mansion, they're doing great. They don't want to talk. They're like x wives running their motherfucking mouse. But go to somebody's wife and in life, don't talk. I don't want to talk about it, so we'll just I'll keep it quiet. Everything's good on the icy front. I love it. Wait time out, Steve do you remember our fourth day at Fallon. I forget which writer ran in to ask me. I forget the writer, but she ran and says, I'm here. Do you know who iced Tea is? And I was like, yeah, no iced Tea. And they wanted me to broker, like I guess one of the one of the Fallon writers had maybe Morgan maybe I forget what it was, but like she had, she had snarked a comment on Twitter, and they wanted us to translate the roots, like what does this mean? Like should I run out of state or should I was like, no, it's I forget what your response was what They were obviously not used to playing the dozens or any of that sort of thing, and from it's a Twitter though you know it's Twitter, It's like yo, whatever. I was my fourth day of Foulon, literally, like I just remember having to walk in the writer's room and calm this person down, like, okay, right, exactly does not mean it means eat a dick? All right? So whatever? You know what, man, people they don't know how to really respond to certain people. They don't know what's up. They don't you know, people come over my house. They expect to see people hanging off meat hooks and ship understand because they pick up a persona from you. They might just listen to my records. They might listen to body count. They don't know who I am really you somebody daddy like you a whole like do you know me better than some they're They'll take a small thing and my whole persona. You know what I'm saying, So you know it is what it is, man, But you know, let me do my shameless plug, please. I could check on the daily game. The daily game was something that I would do on Twitter because when I first got on Twitter, I realized it was mob rules, and I said, you have to get a crew. You got to get people to fuck with you. So I needed something to make you go back to my page. Because Twitter is nothing but a chat room. It's a chat room. It's going right now and talking back and forth and then this million person a multimillion dollar million person chat room. If you follow quest, that means I'm interested in what he's saying versus everybody else. But if you have a timeline with a thousand people, this tweet just shoots. So the only way you really can make Twitter work is if I go to your page, like, I'm gonna go see what the Quest said today. So I crate up this thing called The Daily Game and it's just jewels I got from players, and uh, iHeartRadio dug them and said, hey, why don't we turn this into a podcast. So the podcast is iced Tea's Daily Game. It's on Spotify, and every day I drop a jewel and then I break it down like what the lady wanted Quest to do. So you know shit like if it's if it feels like you're going in circles, it's probably because you're cutting corners. You understand me, you know, so that these are these are little tidbits I got from different players and different people. And I quote Aristotle, Socrates, all kinds of different people, Tyler Perry, I quoted Jimmy. So anytime somebody says something, I'm like, you know, we call it a jewel. Hold on, So tune into the Daily Game. You can tune in once a week and hear like five of them, and uh, I did a year's worth. I recorded two hundred and fifty of them. Took about four sessions, and four sessions, uh six hour sessions, so twenty four hours yo. Before we go. Man, you gotta talk about Chappelle show Hater's ball. Come on, go on. You get a call from Dave Chappelle. Certain niggas call you, you show up. You did what I'm saying, Like I ca Quest called me, I'm gonna show up. Certain people got that Dave Chappelle is one of them cats. Right, So you get the call Dave wants you to be in a skit. Hell yeah, I'm in a skit. So they say it's the player haters ball. Just wear something you'd wear to the players ball. Oh, the red snakeskin suits. But I was glad that the same the same one I had on when I knocked Coco who that was a winner Chicken dinner, that was that was a run. So I threw that on cloud And then they get my hair on the set. They said, don't do your hair. We're gonna curl your hair on the set. And remember they had me sitting down there talking shit what it was, and they just threw the script at me and they just said you hosting. I'm like, I'm hosting, and uh, they just said just get up there, and they had a few things to say. And you know, I invented that hate hate hate, because you go when you go to the real players bar when they get the awards, they say, pimp pimp, pimp pimp right, you know, pim pimp, pim pimp porade. You know, so that's what they do. So I just turned it into hate hate hate. That was ad lib and uh it was legendary. And recently I did a we did it where we were a Game of Thrones and we showed back up and we did the player haters showed up on the Game of Thrones. Wow, skit me ashy Larry and I was what was he called me? You got memories? Um Patris O'Neil. He was in that skit rest in piece. Did jall kind of go back and forth more than what was on the air. It was wild, Nah, niggas talking crazy the whole skit, Like, yeah, it was going back and forth and those are comedians, so they bagging and uh, you know when out of nowhere they're talking shit about me, I said, next person time and stuff. I'm talking about getting shot, believe you know. So we were just going back and forth. My favorite one is I got to go home and put some more milk and buck nasty dish shit them. Oh yeah, that was yeah, like you got the shark teeth say you don't like to shine, but the nigga looks shotted at me, you know. As one of my favorite sketches, bro I was. It was one where you finally got to see cats just talk shit the way we do and it was fun. And you know, rest in peace, Patrese Charlie. You know it's cold, man, those cats ain't with us, and it's legend, you know. But you know, Dave Chappelle is that guy, like I said, we did like I was light skinned, Larry Targarian and the last skin you should have you seen that one. I saw you do one, but I forgot what context I saw it, and I don't know after we get off go to YouTube and put player haters s and now yeah, ok, yes that ship was wild. Yes, you know I saw it. Anyway, man, I've just been fortunate, you know, and and and you know, I'm as big a fan as anybody else to be in this business. You got to be a fan too, you know, it ain't all about you. So I'm I'm I'm in all a certain cats, and you know I don't have a problem letting them know that, you know, So you know, I'm just here for the ride. Man, here's a jewel you ready? Yeah, all right? I see. You don't guide life, you ride life. Nice tea ladies and gentlemen don't guide life. You ride life. There's no way any of us would ever imagine we would be where we are right now today doing what we do. So you just got to take the opportunities that they come and take it for that ride. And you know, who the fuck thought I'd be on television or on a quest love podcast, and you know, all this stuff is just a part of the ride, man. And who knows what toll happened next year? Man, you know, so we're just gonna keep riding this ship. Oh it's afraid of this. I just want to give you all the us like, thank you, brother. You're a beautiful woman, you recognize you know, as funny as cold man. My boy Rich was like yo ice when you met Coco, all you was really looking for was a bit to understand what the fuck you was saying. That's it. That understood what she's saying, man, And you know she does. And God bless her for this, God bless you, and and and and everybody on the podcast. Man go man. The hate is so hate is so rabid right now, you have to embrace the love. You gotta embrace it because it's so when someone shows you love. Man, hold on to that straight up. Now we love you broke straight up, your legend and this ship man straight. Thank you so on behalf of Unpaypal, Fantigolo, Sugar Steve and l Yea this quest Love the Almighty the legendary Iced Tea on Questlove Supreme. Well, thank you very much for doing this and we will see you guys next go round. Much Love Supreme is a production of iHeart Radio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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