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married to somebody who can deal with your flaws. The first thing you have to realize is you’re not perfect, and the person who can accept your imperfections is usually the person you connect to. The problem why people can’t connect is because they don’t believe they have anything wrong with them, and that it’s everyone else. Coco puts up with me. She puts up with my hours, she puts up with my behavior. And I love her. I love her idiosyncrasies.” “Coco is an extrovert. She’s just out there, she’s fun. I needed that. I need someone exciting. I’m very low key. So we work off each other, but I think when you first get together you’re excited but you don’t know why. You’re just basing it off of lust and the excitement of a new person. I think when you’ve been with somebody a long time, you know why now. Maybe you made a mistake and she stayed down with you or vice versa, and that locks you in. When I got with Coco, I’m twenty years older than Coco, and when I got with her, I was like, ‘This is for the rest of the way out,’ in my mind. When you’re in a relationship, you only know what you think. You don’t know what the other person is thinking, so you hope they feel the same way.” On the career advice he gave his wife, Coco: “I think she was the first influencer. I told her, ‘I can’t be your manager; I can’t be your agent. I can be your consultant if you want to ask me a question, but you need your own accolades. You need to win on your own. That’s gonna build character; your wins and your victories. I got a lot of accolades. Get your [own] accolades. But, if you come to a point where you want to ask my opinion, do it. You see people sitting around waiting hours to talk to me, to ask for my opinion. Why wouldn’t you take advantage of it?’” On the one famous historical event he wishes he’d been there to witness: “Oh, Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. I am a big Jimi Hendrix fan. That’s what got me into [rock] music. My cousin thought he was Jimi Hendrix and would walk around playing the air guitar. And to never have been able to see Jimi Hendrix live… I would have loved to see him. I’ve studied and watched his interviews, and I just think he’s the coolest mother*cker.” On Co-Founding The O.G. Network with Courtney “Big Court” Richardson II: “Court is a brotha that I became aware of because he was, like, Master P’s righthand man. He had a podcast called Holding Court, and I noticed he had an Ice-T poster in the background. When I met him he told me, ‘Ice, I’ve studied you. Every record you’ve put out; I know what you’re talking about. I did his podcast a couple times and we became friends. He called me and said, ‘Ice, I’ve got an idea, I want to start a network. Once I understood it, I said the only way I want to get involved is if we can’t be taken down. You could have a YouTube channel with 500,000 subscribers, wake up tomorrow and you’re red flagged. I knew we had to have control over it, and we need to build it straight up to where it’s our network. So that’s what we did. It’s called The O.G. Network. You can get to it at theognetwork.net. We filled it full of O.G. stuff, classic stuff. We’ve got Blaxploitation movies, we’ve got Ice-T movies on there, Master P movies on there, karate movies. The end result is, really, we’re mimicking Tubi.” Ice-T along with co-founder Courtney “Big Court” Richardson II launched The O.G. Network, a FAST Channel Streaming Network available through Roku, Apple, Google Play and Fire TV. The free streamer focuses on urban storytelling. Learn more at theognetwork.net.