Ice T, in a recent interview with Vh1, took shots at Rick Ross and Lil Wayne. Talking about the gangster life and rapping about it, he said a few things about Rick.
He said,
“Rick Ross stole a n*gga’s name. I call him ‘Identity Crisis.’ He thinks he’s [Freeway] Rick Ross, he thinks he’s Larry Hoover, he thinks he’s Big Meech, he thinks he’s MC Hammer, he thinks he’s Tupac. Like, who the f*ck are you really, dude?” adding that, ““When we rapped about dope— me, Snoop and everybody—it was like we doin’ it because we GOT to. Now these n*gga’s is actin’ like it’s somethin’ that’s FUN. It’s so easy to fantasize about it. To actively do it? That’s a whole ‘nother f*ckin’ thing.”
Then he talks about the youth these days,
“You can tell kids these days any motherf*ckin’ thing and they’ll believe it. There’s not a code of accountability in hip hop. When I came out, if you said it, you HAD to be about it. n*ggas would check you really quickly.”
Then he talked about Pop music and Hip-Hop turning into Pop, talking about Weezy,
“When you hear Lil Wayne sayin’ ‘I got a chopper in the car,’ you go, ‘Yeah, right you do.” As Ice-T calls it it’s, “no longer rap. It’s pop music, pop using rap delivery”.
I totally agree with what he said about Hip-Hop these days. It’s all about Money, Hoes, Swag and all that. The true Hip-Hop is fading away is not getting the airplay it deserves. Let us know what you think of his statements regarding Hip-Hop artists today in the comments section below.
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