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On refusing to watch the Diddy docu-series on Netflix: “I didn’t watch it. I’m not into gossip. That’s not my stuff. I purposely avoid all of it. I’m not a woman. Coco might have watched it, but I don’t do that. I don’t do gossip. I’m a man. I was not involved in that [stuff]. I wasn’t there and I don’t care.” On doing Law & Order: SVU for 27 seasons: “Everyone is wonderful on the show. The environment is so cool. Mariska is so dope, and so nice and easy to work with. I couldn’t do it if it was a hostile work environment. But it’s like a team. Everyone’s like, ‘Ice is here, we’re getting ready to go and do it!’ I love that energy. I also know there’s not many better jobs than acting. It’s grown up make believe. How could you find a better job. I’m still able to do music. I tour with Body Count (his heavy metal band) on every vacation. All my artistic itches are being scratched. And it doesn’t hurt to have a solid job. On his SVU character, Fin Tutuola, being the longest running male TV character in history: “Somebody said Homer Simpson, and I’m like, ‘He ain’t real. Homer doesn’t have to get up in the morning and do a call time (laughs). After Season 21 we beat Gun Smoke; that was James Arness. Mariska has me by a few episodes, because I came on in the beginning of the second season, so she has twenty episodes on me. But in order to get that, you have to be on the longest running show. It’s a Catch 22. When I went on that show, I went on to only do four episodes, and now it’s twenty-seven years later. In this business, the only way you know if you’re good is if you get called back. I’ve been getting called back, so I must be doing the job. And when this thing is over, which all good things will come to an end, there’s still a lot of acting left for me. I see Liam Neeson out here doing action movies. I see Denzel, and he’s seventy. Like I always say, I’m Black. I don’t jump off a boat while it’s floating (laughs). This boat is still floating, so why would you jump off (laughs). I’d like to take it for the full ride. ” On being more present for daughter Chanel than he was for his two older children: “My first daughter, I was in the streets, still. So it was more presents over presence. She had all the new sneakers and cool stuff that I could give her, but I wasn’t there. I was in the streets hustling. I didn’t really reconnect with my daughter until she was 16, when she came to live with me. Little Ice, he was born right when I was becoming Ice-T, like right when this star sh*t was starting to happen. I, once again, was not home. I was on the road. I was doing what it takes, you know. You’re trying to become whoever the f*ck you’re supposed to be. The grind that it takes to hit a certain cruising altitude where now you’re known and you got options and people offering you things, it’s difficult to do in a relationship, or with kids. By the time I had Chanel I was at that altitude. Me and Coco had been married at that point fifteen years. At thirty she didn’t want to have kids. At thirty-five she got the bug. She said, ‘I want to have a baby.’ We decided to have Chanel. I was with Coco every day of the pregnancy, I took her to the hospital, I saw Chanel being born and Chanel still sleeps in the bed with us. I’m extremely present. I’m taking Chanel to school and to kung fu. I’m here and present for this child, totally, and it’s the most wonderful thing in the world.” On how his marriage to wife Coco has evolved over 25 years: “When you’re twenty-five years into marriage you go through hard times; you go through all kinds of different things, but you love the person more every day because when you’re married, you’re