The Questlove Show - Questlove Supreme: Ice-T Part 2

Episode Date: April 5, 2023

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So it makes sense, you know, because Ice is a daily game. It's a new podcast where offers daily wits. Make sure y'all check out part one when we talk about ICE's upbringing, his music, and here's part two, where Ice Even gives us a sample of that daily game. All right, Questlove Supreme, Part two with a legendary Ice Tea. How easy was it in 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, he 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? They didn't even know what a rapper was, right? So you heard a story about New Jack City? Well, I know about George Jackson's coin the term, but... Please, please. I don't know the story. I'm in a toilet stall.

in a club and some niggis is talking shit to me in the toilet. I'm taking a shit. I'm sitting there and motherfuckers is like, ice, you cold, man. You be telling this. And I say, yo, player, the problem is if 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 is the star in my movie, whoever said that. And it was me.

So I'm in the club campaigning to three girls, right? I'm talking this shit 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's the most bullshit. Like, you're trying to let these girls know you are a producer. Yeah, Mario.

Did you know who he was? Yeah, but I knew. West, 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 staged. So I'm like, okay, ladies, this is Mario Van People's.

Dottie, daddy, da-di. But he wasn't lying. Yeah. So he hands me a card. So he calls me, call Warner Brothers tomorrow. So I call it. They say, come up here, blah. I come through the gates.

I get there, and they show me the script. They want you to play Scotty. 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 nigga's the police Yeah I got an album coming out called Original Gangsta You wanna play the police

Wait a whole whoa He got dreads I got a perm I got everything So I'm this totally like, no, 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 parlor where I got most of my game, I had this hairdresser named Pearl. And she said, you niggas run around here talking about no opportunities, no opportunities.

And here's one. And you're going to turn this down. If you turn this down, you're a real life 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 say man they want me to play the police the niggas be like word

can I be in the movie that's all they care about 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 on, hold on, hold on, hold on. No, he's right. He is right. Will Smith. The only thing run DMC did tougher than leather and all that old shit. Acting like somebody else did not shoot.

He was the first. I told you I'm on my first shit. 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. I always see history as the second person that masters it. I did it. Pock did it. Everybody started doing it.

Back in the day when being a rapper, you want to act like you was betraying the culture. Like you, it just wasn't, at that time, rappers wasn't even owning their own labels. Like rappers was very in its own zone. So they got me,

they got Chris Rock, who was the newest undergris. ground, you know, Kat Wesley had only done two movies, Major League and a Spike Leaflet. So they didn't trip up this. They didn't have enough black actors to make the movie.

Wow. Now we could do Black Panther. There were not enough young black actors that had any potential to pull a crowd. So they said, Ice T selling millions of records. Right.

You know? Alan Payne and Vanessa Williams couldn't have done it alone, right? Well, Wesley. Oh, Wesley or Wesley. Wesley. So they used the power of the rap and me and Chris being hot on the street.

George Jackson and Doug McCannery, they put us in the role. And the shit popped off. I was scared as fuck. The movie made $87 million. I got paid $25,000. Wow. So by the time you get to trespass and surviving the game

and surviving the game, yeah, that's my favorite. movie. That's driving game is the one. Right. What about this? The second movie was Rickishol with Dan Zelle. Yeah, Richard. Yeah. You played Odessa. Can I ask how is

Hollywood? Because the thing is now it's nothing for rapper, like for people to pivot into other areas and other mediums. But how's the reception to you coming into their territory? Hollywood is simple.

If the movie you're in makes money, you're be in another movie that's just Hollywood it's like his money it's pimped if this hole can make me some money here maybe it 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 and come some scripts let's see if he could do it again so i walked into joel silver's office one of the biggest producers and i said okay new jack city they fuck me, right? But I know I'm about to get paid. I'm with Denzel. About to get paid. That's 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 Rickettschay, I got twice what I got for New Jack City and I didn't work as much. Okay. My payday didn't come until I did Tank Girl, where I played a group. Lloyd Petty. Right. Now, where was that in the Surviving the Game? Trust Path. I'm trying to remember tank, I'm where it was.

And it was tank, it was like 95, 96. I did Johnny Mnemonic with Keanu Reeves. And then I did, I was doing Johnny Neumonic with Keanu Reeves. And they call me, they say, well, you play a stripper in Arizona. I'm like, hell yeah. This is my chance to show LL what it looked like. I was on slow. You seen original gangster poster.

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 a stripper? Like, I open my pouch. Like, what the fuck is this?

And they like, no, it's a ripper. It's a kangaroo. And the movie's called Tank Girl. Right. Oh, because you played a mixture. Yeah, you was a... Right. I forgot.

You got to 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. Yeah. Like, are y'all at your motherfucking mind? Like, what's really good? And then they told me how much I was going to get. Exactly.

And I was hopping around the hotel. You know, because they were like, when you sell out, see, selling out is doing something that's totally against your beliefs. Oh, you are. Yeah. 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 motherfucker 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 in the fact that you were one of the very first acts on Lollapalooza,

which is really America's first true festival. I mean, besides, you know, farm aid or, you know, whatever, but what was that the experience of Lollapalooza like, especially that first year where all this stuff was brand new to American culture? There's always a story behind iced T-Shit, 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 playing like pizza joints and just get, getting a vibe for what this band was. And Ernie had met Perry Farrell. Right. Jerry Farrell was doing a video called The Gift, where he wanted someone to sing nigger Whitey with him, Slice So on shit. Yeah.

Right? So Ernie says Ice-T. Ice-T'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 nigger whitey back of on call me nigger whitey don't call me whitey niggas so we doing this shit so after we did the video he says ice i'm about to do a a tour called lalapalooza it's going to have butthole surfers uh ralans 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

55 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 plow and that was it you ain't want to remind them rock and roll was ours from a jump anyway so well you know hip hop is rock whether people want to claim it and not. You don't aren't need a mic.

We rock the mic. We rock 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. That's pop. Be popular. Rock is fuck that. I'm going to 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 you've been asked a trillion times about the cop killer incident. Why not? No, no, I know. But, you know, I also feel like that doesn't define you, especially now. But you know what it is, though? You only get strikes for fighting battles.

You know what I'm saying? So I'm very proud of my battles, you know? Should be. 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 nigger, you know? That's what I want to know. Like, how serious...

How real did it get? The worst shit 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 building on several occasions on the count of me, because they were getting bomb threats.

Yeah, it got heavy. Shit. Who's threatening? Because we talk about the authority. So who is the threat? That's the interesting part. This is something you've got to 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 got in a beef with, let's say, method man, who's one of my good friends. I ain't got to worry about running a meth. I could run into some Wu-Tang fans. I could run into somebody who loves him at a restaurant. I could run into some girls that fuck you, I say it can happen. So when you diss the cops, you can run in somebody whose brother's a cop, an ex-cop, somebody who's just a patient. You set up energy of beef out there. You don't know where it's going to come.

You never just beefing with one person. Yeah, right. You're beefing with their fans. Right. Every fucking body. 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 got to understand there's levels of news. Like all this shit that's on the black blogs. That's nigger news. That news, you ain't going to know about that. But when it makes it to CNN, that's national news. follow what I'm saying. So a lot of this stuff. Yeah, I got to do it.

I got to do a parallel folks. It's kind of like, well, Kieran'an, I got to do the white parallel because we can't just do nigger news. We got to do cracker news too. So yeah, I just, yeah, okay, I got you, though. But there's certain blogs that we listen to. Yes.

Right? Yes. If you talk to somebody in the mainstream, they have no idea that such and such as or they don't know about that stuff. TMZ starting to leak a little bit of our business. out there, but, you know, who's cheating on who, they don't care. If it makes money, right?

National news is coming on right after the war in, you know, Ukraine. Warren Rukane. Now I see in Warner Brothers that, this is now, now you're in front of the world. This is big shit. So you got to 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, to, the mainstream this shit was big the president was on my bumper you know we were let me date myself

we we were playing techno bowl quest and um my boy comes downstairs like yo the president is on tv talking about ice and we ran upstairs and quail said an ice tea and so quail's like ice tea 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 in anger that's saved for like terrorists and bin Laden and shit like that right when 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 try, because when a president says Quest Love, this guy's a problem. All the FBI, DEA, all them do background checks because

the next question could be, what do we know about him? They can't say he plays on tonight's show. He's a drummer. They can say 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 see, was I really trying to make a call to arms? Was I telling people go kill the cops? Am I a problem? Which I wasn't. I was just making a record. Well, wait, did you

feel vindicated because Rodney King happens a year later? No, they blame Rodney King on me. They spun it to make it seem like I made that record because of Rodney King. I I got caught in a big, it was a political year. The internal 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 ICE T should be mad. But why white company? Why y'all put this, you know. Give him the platform to say this.

And that became the death of Warner Brothers. You got to remember when I did that, Warner Brothers had Prince. Warner Brothers had Slayer. They had the ghetto boys. They had Sam Kinniston. They had anything that was edgy. And that ended. And 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 say, separate from anything controversial because of 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 taking, were you losing roles, were you? Yeah,

New Jack City Part 2. So there was going to be a sequel? Yeah. I didn't know that. Me neither, but Nino lived. Well, wait, you knew this, Fonte? Yeah, I saw, I saw George Jackson, they, they did an

interviews, this was years ago, but they mentioned it then. But it never came out. But what happened was Wesley went off and he did Demolition Man and made $7 million. And, you know, I was in trouble, so now they can't hit Wesley's number because the whole movie

New Jack was made for $5 million. Right. Everything happened. But, no, you know, I got you know what happened, though? It's like when you get in some shit like this, I never pointed it any other rappers. I never pointed at any other rock groups because I'm like, yo, this is my heat. And, you know, to me,

that's kind of like snitching. It's kind of like, yo, you got caught, nigga, handle your business. Take it. This is your shit. So you've never seen ICE. What about this group? Or what about, nah, 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 going to survive. You know what I'm saying? But I just had to stand my ground. And I, And I remember I met with Minister Farrakhan at Honorable Elijah Muhammad's house. And in all honesty, he just told me. He said, what you did wasn't subtle. If you stand in the street, expect to get hit by a car.

So I had to learn that we have freedom of speech, but watch what you say. And 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 got to be, if you say something anti-gay, be prepared. You did what I'm saying? If I mention any rapper's name, be prepared. So just don't be reckless talking and shit and think they 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, Kaplanet, and I drop down and I'm going to pull a knee, I got to know the NFL's going to make a move on me. And I got to be strong enough to handle that. Or I shouldn't do it.

You don't do it, man. You know, so don't protest and get fired and get fired because you got fired because to protest, you got to be prepared for the hit. There's going to be a hit back or you're not really protesting nothing. He dropped some gems there for us. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th.

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follow Timbo Slical Life 12 and TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. I wanted to ask about the home invasion record because that one came on priority. What led to that change from Warner to Friday?

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 turned platinum. I'm hot over there. But they just went through some shit. Body count itself now.

So it sold gold twice. It went gold with cop killers and went gold without cop killer. Wow. I'm making some money over there for them. And I came in. And they had my lyrics written on these big boards. They wrote it out. And I had some foul.

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. Their breath's smelling like semen. I catch them in the alley all alone. Put them in the prone. Pop, pop, pop to the don't. So I'm still killing cops, right?

The sentence alone. I'm sorry. You know, that's what I did. So they pull this lyric out, that lyric out, this lyric out. And I was just like, you know what, can I go? You asked to go. Yeah. I said, can I go?

Because now I'm in a difficult place. They never A&Red any of my music. It was just good, go, body count. They put out an album called Cop Killer. I love it over there. I'm in a great place. But now it should change. So Home Invasion was coming right after Cop Killer.

So they let me go. Wait, can I ask something? Was Benny Medina part of any of these meetings? Benny Medina was the A&R guy back in the day, but he never A&R me because he was Warner, not a... 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 Mo Austin and Lenny Warnaker. I'm dealing with the time. And 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 never forget they were like, as soon as we allow them to censor you, we're up shit creek. Yeah. We're up shit creek. And Warner stayed down with me. Even Gerald Levin wrote a big thing in the Wall Street Journal, the CEO of Time Warner backing me up. And, um, I just felt like it's kind of like me and you are friends quest and I'm getting you in trouble, man. And I'm just like, look, man.

There has a tide. No, no, I'm just going to bail, man. I got, because I got to still do me. I got, I got it. It's like Dave Chappelle. I got to go because I got to, I got to do me because my, my career is based on my integrity. And I can't have y'all censoring my shit. So I go to priority, Brian Turner, did NWA and all.

them, they were still open and 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 gave me half a million. I didn't have to recoup it. Nice. They let you keep your tapes and just go to. Yeah. So that was fly. That was fly. They didn't say, hey, you could take this album. But we got to get the money back. They just let me have it.

So I took it over there. And I was fighting with the source. And, you know, the source was talking shit. I remember that. Because 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 comment on the battles.

True. 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 product, you know, what we're going to do. I still got soldiers, you know. Turn up the mic, 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. And, you know, I'd say, source magazine, you're the first one. You tried to disc Chuck Cube and me. how to fuck you pick us three you punk motherfuck shan shit you're just a bunch of hoes making money

off the pros and when I see you get you in my sights I'll give you a story to write. It's on I remember how shocking was it for you some like 19 years later

to sort of live through 99 problems now becoming you know Kind of an anthem. I trust that you're one of the publishers of 99 problems. Yeah. And you know what it is?

Quest, now everybody's trying to turn that into beef. It ain't beef. No, it's no beef. It's a story. And the story... I never knew there was beef. I thought he sampled you or...

Covered the song. The new podcast, people like to take clips of what you say and then cut it and switch. Right. And make it look like Jay-Z stole. the song. No, he cleared it. You can't do that. Did Chris Rock ever tells that story on his episode?

99 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? Whoop, there is? The original. Not the 95 Southers. The one from tag team. Tag team, yes. That's the cano I'm ready.

It was the bell box, wouldn't it? All right. Tag team was the, where the DJ days in Magic City. And when the girls bent over, they'd 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 cooch, whoop, there it is.

There it is. They turned that into the song. So Marquise is sitting in my house and he's like, man, all the nights I sat in Magic City, and they say in that shit, nigger, that was the phrase. it pays, man. So he's talking, then out of nowhere, he said, man, I got nine-nine problems. The bitch ain't one, though. I said, what the fuck did you

do you? And he said it. I said, that's a song. So I made the song. You know, I got a hole from the east. I got a hole from the west. I got a hole from Alabama with a pussy in a chest. So I'm saying, so I make the record

and then Marquise did a verse. Right. It was on home invasion. Those I see fans, know it. The legend goes, Chris Rock was in the studio with Rick Rubin, and they had Jay coming in,

and they brought that song up to be remade. The song was remade. They paid publishing, publishing with, I had a deal with, I think, Universal publishing, a point scene 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, Ice, you know, I love you, man. I love you, because I met Jay way back with Big Daddy Kane brought him through back in the day when he was with Jazzo. Right.

So I got love for Jay Z. I'm not, you know, so Jay's like, you know, they say you mad. I'm like, dude, I'm not mad. This is the press. They're pushing this shit like that. It's like, you know, and so I was talking to him and I was like, well, Jay, you know, you did the record,

but at the end of the record, you could have said, ICE, you know, like. Right, right. I don't know, like a boom, my nigger, 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 who I was influenced by.

Yep, yep. But just think about that. Like, everybody don't automatically do what you do in that way. Yeah, but, you know, it's all, it's all. Yeah. It's out in the open now. I think also on that record, he used one of Bun B's lyrics, too, from UGK. So, you know, it's a technique.

It's a style of something. It's Jay-Z. Jay-Z's a super rapper. Like, shit. You know, it ain't like he can't write a rhyme if he doesn't, he wants to. He just feels like throwing some other flavor in there. I love Jay-Z. I mean, that's the spirit of hip-hop.

Like, you've got to take a little bit of this, a little bit of that and build 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. I mean, you've done everything, even fatherhood. Well, I mean, you've done fatherhood, but... Multiple times. No, no, no, but I mean, I feel like you're a new person now with you, like, you...

Absolutely. Yeah, you're a new person. Muhammad Ali said when a man has a child in the second half of life after 50, it hits a reset button on its life. And I've gotten healthy. I have a reason to live. She's a whole new... You're right, Quest.

It's a brand new life for me. I got to live forever. I decided I'm not going to die. I checked out my schedule. I'm booked till 100. And I ain't seen no funerals on there. So I've been around here. I got some shit to do.

I want to ask you too, man. Yo, Cheerios. Yeah. All the commercials. Because, you know, Car Shields, carshills, cars go far. And, you know, Ice T said. I was, I was watching Shaq.

It's official. Watching Shaq 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 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, see if somebody will fuck with me. And the first commercial I got was the, The Geico, the Ice Tea, read the sign. Right.

That was good, too. And everybody breaks for impact. Like, there was going to be an outcry. But see, this is what's happened. The guards have changed. Exactly. The people that are in charge now are like 48-year-old CEOs. That's how we were able to do the Super Bowl.

The people that were so scared of Eminem and them are gone now, and our fans are in charge. But, ICE, you don't want to give some of that, too, to, like, Sergeant Tutuola? Because Tutuola has changed a lot of that, too. Whatever has done it, I just think it's just that the new people love us. They love Snoop Dog. They grew up with us. So there's no fear of us.

Right now we put a cereal out with Ozzy Osbourne, a bat cereal. And the parents would think it's funny. The kids wouldn't get it. That's true. Right. You know, so I start getting these commercials. I get that tied, called. me.

Ice wash. Ice cold wash. Yeah, but I, it's got a fit. So I'm like, what do I got to do with that? They say washing in ice, cold. I'm like, cool, okay. Stone cold Steve Austin's in it. I'm in.

I'm like, stone cold, I'm in. It seems like so cool that like the homie is just like, I just happen to be watching the commercial. My homie ice tea was doing it. Like, is that real? That's Mr. Biggs. Yes. Oh, Sonic Force.

He's from New York. That's one of the OGs. hip-hop. Yes. And, um, see, Car Shield, the, uh, the agent calls me, they say, they know you got a lot of cars. 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 cars. Like, they'll fuck with like Mercedes Benz, Range Rover. They fuck with that. So I got a car shield. And I done, I done, yeah, bids called me up. So, yo, man, I fucking, I got car shield, because I've seen you on TV and the transmission went

out, man, they fixed that shit. It was... You're official. It's official. I was like, hold that thought. I called him. I said, I got a real testimonial from one of my homies. Y'all got him out. They said, we'll put him in a commercial. So they put him in a commercial, paid him and gave him lifetime car shield. That's crazy. I love it.

I love it. And Cheerios was just... I'm like, how do I fucking feel with Cheerios? You're older. You're in great shape. You're still touring. Cheerios is for hearts. And I thought of a nigger like me on a Cheerios box. Like some of this shit, honestly, Quest, all this thing I'm going through right now, my life is beyond my wildest dreams.

Getting a star? Like, really? All the robberies and shit I did up in Hollywood, like how many times I've been laid flat on them damn stars? Like, this shit is crazy, man. But you know what it is? I'll tell you it is. It's inspirational because you can make a change in your life. And America loves a comeback.

They love a comeback. If you, 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'll root for you. Yeah.

But don't fuck up again. Because they scarred your ass like trash because they rode for you the second time. Right. So I'm on my best behavior. Ice, before you go, can I just ask one two to a question at least? Like, can I just... I'm in my house.

You got plenty of time. I'm just telling you. Okay, because some of us have, 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 Belser. Yeah. Like, we watch y'all together and even behind the scenes, we watch your friendship. So, um.

Wait a minute. Oh. What? Weren't you responsible for, I put it out there that I wanted to be a dead body on the show. Right, you were on SVU. 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. Thank you. So, okay, so my question is, most challenging storyline on SVU for 2-0 for IC. The request came in from Quest and it got on the grid. there and then the line that of course i'm the black guy so they go quest love 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 don't dana he's extra he's right okay okay i say he's a great person i mean yo if you got a chance to put quest on the show so i go back so i co-signed you because they don't know they bring a nigga up there a nigga might wow out right you know snoop came up there and smoked the whole place out. Yeah, that's a rule. You just got to know. So, all right. So back to my fan out question, though.

Was their most challenging storyline? I appreciate, I just want to say how Tutuola has became an amazing grandfather to his gay sons, husbands, 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. Oh shit. I don't I don't rock with that I don't I don't think streetcats 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

It means you're into things that are preprovesant 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 her 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 I'll tell you a funny one, like one season I come back and they tell me, you're getting married.

I'm like, to who? They're 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 that? So I had to talk It was kind of confusing

Shout to Jennifer Esposito I'm mad I know everything that goes on in the show But I'm glad you Jennifer got engaged And we 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've learned to act quest So I don't really care Where my character goes As long as you can die You know Because you had close calls where it's like

Okay, we gotta talk to you or go to dinner. Like, how do you know if your character is getting off or not? You get shot. I mean, you get shot in the script and you see the shot. Then you go like this. Oh, shit, okay. Breathing on tape. Shit, I survived that, you know.

But, no, there's a producer, or Lauren O'Hawyer. We call the Grim Reaper. If he takes it to dinner, it's a rap. So when you get taking to dinner, you already know. Yeah. See, 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 going to get rid of me, give me six month advance so I could book a tour or something. Just don't do me. Don't just do me. I deserve that. And now being the longest running actor in television, they owe me that. 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 fall 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're getting ready to start the 25th season. And some point, it'll be over. And then I'm just going to go out and read for all Samuel Jackson's parts. Boy, is it really going to be over? I think that show is basically built to last. Well, as long as you and Mariska, to be honest, that's what I was wondering. 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 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, Mariska. So you've got to understand where you stand in my life. Me and Mariska, 25 years, that's longer than you went to high school, college. Who do you know that you Like Quest has been with Jimmy every day When you start having those relationships Where you're with somebody every day

For years and years and years and years That's me and Tariq Like I think I've had a longer consistent Everyday relationship with Tariq Than my my parent Like my family anyone You've seen him more than all of them Yeah

Yeah That's what I said And I thought about this I see I was like what does it ICE He feel like to know that like he's been a cop longer than he's been an MC. I mean, well, you're always going to be an MC, but longer than you've been making records,

I'll put it that way. Well, the thing of it is, I've been acting like a cop. I'm not no motherfucking cop. I know, that's right. You better tell me. I'm talking like a cop, but, you know, the thing of it is

is that if you hire, if you hire a street cat to play a cop, you get more of an official cop because the cops are really thugs. Right. You know, so the way they handle

They self, if you get a square, 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 DEA, 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 the 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. Yes. When I'm interrogating somebody, you, you, the viewer, feel like I's about to smack the shit out this, Nick, right? Yep. Yes. Now, here's something for you. Acting like a cop and a gangster are the exact same acting.

It's the 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 energy that is, it's a guy. 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're going to do what I want you to do. I'm going to fucking fuck you up.

I love watching it. I just love watching you. I really do. I really do. I think for your fans, we just love the evolution, even where you are in the police force now. The beauty of it is for me in L.L. is that our fans have matured with us. So you probably would with us when we were rapping And now, you know, you're not necessarily listening

to hip hop like that anymore, but you've grown up And your mothers and this, that, and the third But we're still the people you grew up with. Our fan base has matured with us. But it's also seeing y'all as whole men too. Like seeing you show feelings, seeing you all the things. It's just beautiful to watch, even if you are acting. But I know that when you were on in your house,

Some of that stuff goes home too. Some of it. Yeah. Speaking of a home and like with your marriage, man, how did you make that transition from being in the streets to, you know, going straight to being domestic? 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 true. So men, we're kind of like no good up to 35 years old because we have to go through the same thing they went through. See, women, they mature earlier. Because at 17, if a girl's hot, she's in the club.

She's living the life. We can't live. Yeah, she's in the car with the 40-year-old niggins. Right, right. Right, think about it. I didn't get in the bins until I bought one. You know? So they mature much faster because life opens for them earlier.

When you see all these girls and bikinis laid out on the yacht, them bitches don't own that yacht. They're on there because they're cute. We can't get on the yacht unless we're going to. Until we buy it. Right. So life happens for them. But here's the problem.

Here's the problem. When y'all is slowing down, we're just taking off. Yeah. At 27, when the woman sees 30 and she's like, I need to slow down and figure it out, the guy's just getting this bag. Just getting this drive. Yeah. It's a stagger with us.

So what happens is I had a girlfriend. Darlene who was on my covers, me and her were like together for 15 years, but I never got married because I already knew what kind of nigger I was still moving. I was just becoming famous. Rule one, don't marry nobody that's just getting at the beginning of fame.

Oh, hell yeah. You know, it's, you never... It's an onslaught of pussy, and you just have to weather that shit. And you think, anyway, what happens is when I met Coco, when I made Coco, when I made Coco, I was 42 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 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. So when I met her, she was kind of done. And in the words of pimping and kin, one down bitch is worth 10 funky hoes, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, at some point, I chose, and fortunately it's stuck like glue. We've been mad at it for 22 years. That's so crazy, man.

It's beautiful. It was, it was just the right chick. You know, she liked me. And like when I met her, I had her. had on a red snake skin suit. Oh. You know, I was, I was on some player shit and a video. She's like, ooh, that's fly.

What Cocoa from? What was she from? What was she? Okay. Okay. She could do that. Okay. But she, but she liked this.

I'm too much for most girls. They like, Nick, every girl that's out of your mouth is pimping, hoe and bitches. She's like, ooh, ooh, top of that shit. 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 exhibitionist. She likes showing herself she's fun. And I dig it. She ain't right for everybody. So a lot of times people will come to me and go, well, give me some advice. I said, I can. 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. 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 sweet. And she has me happy, has me wanting to stay in house and play video games.

And she's enough for me. What you play? What games are you on? What you be on? Oh, Judy and Jessica. Oh, you call it a duty. Okay. Yeah.

First-person shooters. Oh, okay, you're the shooters. Okay, got you. But, you know, one thing about relationships, don't brag on them because you'll jinx yourself. Oh, God. You better preach this word. Come on, I, Simone.

You know, you're in a good place, but, I mean, you know, you ever notice, like, when you watch basketball wives, none of them are really the wives. Yeah. Yes. Because the wives aren't doing no fucking interviews. The wives are happy. They're in the mansion.

and they're doing great. They don't want to talk. They're like, X-Y's running their motherfucking mouse. But go to somebody's wife in life. Don't talk. I'm going to talk about it. So 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, Amir, do you know who iced tea is? And I was like, yeah, I know iced tea.

And they wanted me to broker. Like, I guess one of the, one of the Fallon writers had maybe Morgan, Morgan, maybe I forget it was, but like 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? I was like, no, I forget what your response was, but they were obviously not used to playing the dozens or any of that sort of thing. And like that's like, eat a dick, bitch. It's Twitter, though.

You know, it's Twitter. It's like, yo, whatever. My fourth day of Fallon literally, like, I just remember having to walk in the. writer's room and calm this person down like, okay. So eat a dick bitch means right, exactly. That's not mean stuck a dick. 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 shit. What the fuck? I don't

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're somebody daddy. Like you a whole like, you know me better than some. They did they're, they'll take a small thing and turn that into 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, my shameless plug. Please. 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 people are talking back and forth.

And in this million person, a multi-million-million-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, his tweet just shoot. So the only way you really can make Twitter work is if I go to your page. Like, I'm going to go see what Quest said today.

So I crave up with this thing called The Daily Game. And it's just jewels I got from players. And I Heart Radio dug them and said, hey, why don't we turn this into a podcast? So the podcast is Ice Teas 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 feels like you're going in circles,

it's probably because you're cutting corners. You understand me, you know. So 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. I love them.

I love that. So tune in to the daily game. You can tune in once a week and hear like five of them. And I did a year's work. I recorded 250 of them. Took about four sessions, four sessions, six-hour sessions, so 24 hours. Yo, before we go, man, you got to talk about Chappelle Show. Haters ball

Come on Come on Come on You get a call From Dave Chappelle Certain niggas call you You show up You did what I'm saying

Like Like I call Quest call 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 This wears something You'd wear To the players ball Oh

The red snake skin suit I was that the same suit? It was the same one? Same one I had on when I knocked Coco. Woo! That was a winner chicken dinner. That was the one. So I threw that on, blouse.

And then they did my hair on the set. They said, don't do your hair. We're going to curl your hair on the set. And remember they had me sitting down there talking shit when they were doing my front. And they just threw the script at me. And they just said, you hosting. I'm like, I'm hosting. And they just say,

just get up there and they had a few things to say. And, you know, I invented that hate, hate, hate, because when you go to the real players ball, when they get the awards, they say, pim, pim, pim, pim, pim, pim. Oh, right. You know, pim, pim, pimp, hooray. You know, so that's what they do. So I just turned it into hate, hate, hate, hate.

That was ad lib. And it was legendary. And recently I did a, we did it where we were Game of Thrones. And we showed back up and we did the player haters, showed up on the Game of Thrones. Wow. I skit. Me, Ashy, Larry, and I was, uh, uh, what was he called me?

Do you have, you have memories, um, Patrice O'Neill, he was in that skit, uh, rest and peace to jow, kind of go back and forth more than what was on the air? It was wild. Nah, niggas be talking crazy the whole skit. Like, yeah, it was going back and forth. And those are comedians. So they bagging. And, uh, you know, out of nowhere, they talk of shit about me.

I said next person I'm talking about talking about it's getting shot. Please believe that. 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 bunk nasty. This mama's dish. She wears underwear with dickholes in them. Oh, yeah. That was, yeah. It looked like you got shark teeth.

They say, don't like to shine, but the nigg looks shining to me. That's one of my favorite sketches, bro. I watch a show all time. 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, Patrice, Charlie, you know. It's cold, man. Those cats ain't with us in it. And it's legend. But, you know, Dave Chappelle is that guy. Like I said, we did, I was light skin, Larry Targaryen in the last skit. Have you seen that one? I saw you do one, but I forgot in what context I saw it in. I don't know. After we get off, go to YouTube and put player haters, S&L. Yes, okay. Oh, SNL.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That shit was wow. Yeah. You know.

I saw it. Anyway, man, I've just been fortunate, you know, and, you know, I'm as big a fan as anybody else. To be in this business, you've got to be a fan, too. You know, it ain't all about you. So I'm. I'm in awe of certain cats, and 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. Let's go. All right. You don't guide life, you ride life. Ice 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. You know, who the fuck thought I'd be on television or on a Quest Love podcast? You know, all this stuff is just a part of the ride, man. And who knows what will happen next year, man? You know, so we're just going to keep riding this shit. Who is afraid it is? I just want to give you all the hugs.

Thank you, brother. You're a beautiful woman. You recognize, you know, as funny, it's cold, man. My boy Rich was like, yo, ice, when you met Coco, all you was really looking for was a bitch that understand what the fuck you were saying. That's it. That understood what she's saying, man. And, you know, she does.

And God bless you. Must respect to her. Must respect to her for this. God bless you and everybody on the podcast, man. Thank you, man. The hate is so rabid right now. You have to embrace the love. You've got to embrace it because it's fair.

So when someone shows you love, man, hold on to that. No, straight up. Nah, we love you, bro. Straight up. You're a legend in this shit, man. Thank you. So, on behalf of Unpaid Bill, Fon Tigo, Sugar Steve, and Lightyith, this is Questlove. The Almighty, the legendary IST, on Questlove Supreme.

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