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dawg, all respect to Ice T, but u dont blame a 17 year old boyU wanna blame someone, blame the DJs spinning his record in his city
blame the sorry state of hip hop that your generation let my generation have to suffer thru (puff, jay, russel simmons, nas, etc)
blame the dollar over anything else record execs that signed this boy to a deal and distributed his music widely
blame the music buying public for having lowered standards (thanks to the neptunes selling everyone the same beat for their lead singles for like 6 years straight for example)
thank this culture’s obsession with reality tv and voyeurism, we on some Philip K Dick/Running Man shit for real
thank all them niggas that valued business over art in the late 90s early 00s that dismantled the need and use for any hip hop of urgency or weight or any social or artistic value in the mainstream
blame shitty A&Rs
blame the press for hyping mediocre records to the point the go plat in one week in this fucked up economy/market (i see you lil wayne)
blame niggas that could have made a difference that let their ego and pride and personal ambition get in the way of them making a difference (hello qtip ali phife dangelo the roots mos kweli common)
blame the industry only looking at 3.5 American cities for hip hop acts anyway like they won’t run out of talent (new york los angeles atlanta and maybe chicago). Detroit city makes better hip hop than any city on earth, the bay is sick, houston is multifaceted north carolina is home of the goddamb justus leagueIce T crazy; soulja boy killed it? That kid just getting in where he fit in
[typed on my iPhone, excuse the poor grammuhz]
Ice T needs to go sit down somewhere
Soulja Boy Wins :(
Nikki: the difference is that at 17 Soulja Boy *IS* a child. Ice-T, on the other hand, is a grown-a**, 50+ year old man who not only made himself irrelevant in hip-hop at least a decade ago, but wants to blame Soulja Boy for the death of it.
And did it in such a childish way with “eat a dick.” That’s high school fo’ real.
Besides, we can all name at least a dozen artists who pioneered hip-hop’s decline before Soulja Boy. If anything, he’s one of the bright spots in how the genre and the industry need to evolve.
I guess I should clarify/qualify this “If anything, he’s one of the bright spots in how the genre and the industry need to evolve.” I mean in a marketing / business / promotions kind of sense. Cuz Soulja Boy’s accent makes my ears hurt.
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dawg, all respect to Ice T, but u dont blame a 17 year old boy
U wanna blame someone, blame the DJs spinning his record in his city
blame the sorry state of hip hop that your generation let my generation have to suffer thru (puff, jay, russel simmons, nas, etc)
blame the dollar over anything else record execs that signed this boy to a deal and distributed his music widely
blame the music buying public for having lowered standards (thanks to the neptunes selling everyone the same beat for their lead singles for like 6 years straight for example)
thank this culture’s obsession with reality tv and voyeurism, we on some Philip K Dick/Running Man shit for real
thank all them niggas that valued business over art in the late 90s early 00s that dismantled the need and use for any hip hop of urgency or weight or any social or artistic value in the mainstream
blame shitty A&Rs
blame the press for hyping mediocre records to the point the go plat in one week in this fucked up economy/market (i see you lil wayne)
blame niggas that could have made a difference that let their ego and pride and personal ambition get in the way of them making a difference (hello qtip ali phife dangelo the roots mos kweli common)
blame the industry only looking at 3.5 American cities for hip hop acts anyway like they won’t run out of talent (new york los angeles atlanta and maybe chicago). Detroit city makes better hip hop than any city on earth, the bay is sick, houston is multifaceted north carolina is home of the goddamb justus league
Ice T crazy; soulja boy killed it? That kid just getting in where he fit in
Ice T needs to go sit down somewhere
[typed on my iPhone, excuse the poor grammuhz]
what he said.
lookin boy
Fawamajam and Jay Smooth (god I hate calling people by their hip-hop names) pretty much said it all. How is Ice T’s rant any better than the people who said that Run DMC was just a fad and that “real” music was anything but that “rapping noise”. Are we, as older hip-hop fans, basically becoming Donnie Simpson in front of our very eyes? Yes, I went with an old school BET reference.
im nearly thirty, but i feel soulja boy, not his music of course, but hes kinda right with wut hes sayin. like, whose interested in ice t nymore except nobody?
I think the older cats who have a stake in the game and still want to be apart of it are smart enough to reach out to new cats, open door and all that.
unless you just want to sit and complain, you telling me Ice T don’t know enough or got enough money to get a movement started with the kind of music he feels should be put out. But hey, he is an old ass nigga
ice-t = sonned by someone “young enough to be [his] son.”
i teach soulja boys and girls, so the game has definitely changed. i may not agree with their direction, but at least i took the time to school my students. i let them know that rockin’ chains and other misc. sh*t did NOT start with lil wayne. i made them look up big daddy kane one day. they laughed, and the girls didn’t think he was fine (like i still do), but at least they got exposed to him. my co-worker and i played some old school hip hop in class one day, and my kids said, “these songs came off of ‘grand theft auto.’ that became what teachers call a “teachable moment.”
anyway…ice-t SHOULD be ashamed of himself. a 50-yr old man telling a kid to “eat a d*ck” is beyond immature. i agree that if ice-t sees that there needs to be some changes in hip hop, then “revive it.” if your old a** ain’t got no better lines than “eat a d*ck,” then you need to fall back, go lay down, retire…
i am too old to understand soulja boy’s music, but i wouldn’t embarrass my old a** by telling him to “eat a d*ck.” i just sit back on the porch in my rocking chair with my friends, and talk about how good sh*t used to be.
Yall should see me crank dat Iceman.
yeah…Soljah Boy is on point…I have opinions on certain music that gets overplayed….but to blame the artist is kind of ridiculous in this case. Ice-T was outta line for that one straight up.As a true vet …he prolly could’ve handled it better.
“blame niggas that could have made a difference that let their ego and pride and personal ambition get in the way of them making a difference (hello qtip ali phife dangelo the roots mos kweli common)”
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this is the line that got me. everyone knows q-tip is the meanest most inaccessible person ever! and for what? if these backpacking ass niggas were even remotely not stuck on the smell of their own shit maybe we’d be better off? i dont know, ice T telling a young rapper to “Eat a dick” is not helpful. soulja boy single handedly killed hip hop?
not quite, any academic would call Ice T a teleological bastard. things don’t just move from point A to point B inevitably. paths have to be paved for Soulja Boy. and who paved them? not Soulja boy himself…