Who said hip-hop was dead?
Ice T accuses Soulja Boy of singlehandedly ruining hip hop.
Soulja Boy responds.
Ice T Backpedals... sorta
Ice T Squashes The Beef
I'll be honest, as much as a completely disdain both involved parties, I think Ice T looks like a jackass here. He's obviously puffin' out his old chest cause he has an album (which nobody will even illegally download) to hawk, and if you gotta pick a target, a simpleton like Soulja Boy Tell Em' is easy pickins.
Still, you're darn near 50. Rap is a young man's sport. You don't see Bill Russell hatin' on Amare Stoudamire, do you? So, trying to go toe to toe with a mentally challenged 17 year old is a battle you're gonna lose before you even start.
On the flipside, Ice T isn't exactly doing anything to elevate the artform either. Has the man been relevant musically since "Colors"? And don't even get me started on that "wife" of his.
Soulja Boy didn't singlehandedly ruin hip-hop. He is the personification of the years and years of damage that greedy record labels and greedier media outlets (TV, black radio) have cultivated. He isn't smart enough to ruin anything other than the innocence of a 12 year old.
Leave the kid alone, Mr. Ice.
Question: Is this the dumbest rap beef ever?
Sunday, June 29, 2008
The Dumbest Rap Beef Ever!?!?
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Granted, I think Ice-T was right in his assertion that Soulja Boy single-handedly killed, murdered, massacred, bludgeoned, dismembered, did-away-with hip-hop...I mean, Ice-T is an OLD man and why is an OLD man beefin' with a 17 year old KID?!?!?!
Although Boy did act, well, like a boy in his reaction to Ice-T, I kind of understood where he was coming from in the respect that why was this old guy, who seemingly has a new album about to drop, and clearly we think of Ice-T more as the actor from New Jack City and Law and Order rather than retired rapper.
This all gave me the big "WTF?!?!?" as it's still June and we're celebrating Black Music this month....
isn't that spesha...
*On the next Law & Order SVU...*
"DUN! DUN!" (That little song they do before every scene.)
Detective Finn: "Alright, Soulja Boy. Confess. You murdered hip-hop! You left it in cold blood!"
Soulja Boy: "Naw, mayne. I saw that final scene in Breakin' 2. Ice-T had them sissy clothes on and dem spikes and goofy glasses.
YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU DID IT!"
*continuous laughter*
EG
Ice-T was right in that this kid should have just let that slide and just chalked that up to a hip-hop Cosby-like moment. Ice-T is wrong when he says Souljah Boy killed hip-hop. Corporate interests killed hip-hop.
And I can't believe AB actually called a few webcam postings a Rap Beef!! LL/Kool Moe Dee, Nas/Jay-Z were rap beefs. This is just a public generational conflict, which isn't unique to hip-hop anyway. Rap beef. Please. This kid owes Ice-T for extending his 15 minutes.
I like Soulja Boy. He made a party song. What's wrong with that. I mean, you make as song you believe in, people buy it, they play it on the radio, people feel it at the clubs..... What did he do wrong. How is that killing Hip-Hop.
Soulja boy used "Silly" which is the same as Crazy, mad, bananas.
In the ATL, we get LOTS of exposure to Soulja Boy. He's alright with me.
Also, Stop hatin' on Lil Wayne. That milli is good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rCSMxMUavM
To cjames30082:
If one strives for club songs or ringtones, then yes, soulja boy hit the mark and hit it well. I'm sure Ice-T was more talking about how hip-hop was birthed out of some need to put a voice to a generation and speak about their own issues--and I do mean ISSUES as in problems with government, authorities, speak on cultural things.
I mean, I had more respect for Nelly's Air Force Ones rather than Get Silly or She Got a Donk and certainly more than Crank Dat. At least Air Force Ones was somewhat of a tranche de vie of the life of black males and just how much emphasis we put on our attire and our shoes--especially all white Air Force Ones, which a Michael Eric Dyson would eat up as far as cultural criticism.
Crank Dat on the other hand--is a mess.
I've been living in Atlanta these last two years and when I heard my barber singing Get Silly, I knew that Soulja Boy, sadly, is here to stay longer than I thought. I was hoping he woulda been a J-Kwan with his "Errybody in Club Gettin' Tipsy."
Btw, Milli is good stuff, but he coulda kept Lollipop, he sound like a broke a$$ T-Pain, who NEEEEEDS a vocoder for his effed up voice.
This isn't beef, it's stupid. Let's just say that Ice T was right. I doesn't even matter-he is the wrong messenger. How you gonna tell somebody to respect their elders and you parading a naked Barbie around -- your kid! A WTF moment indeed! Yo Ice, respect yourself!
I think that this just illustrates the difference between Hip Hop and rap. Hip hop is the voice of the people, it's real, it's raw and sometimes it's funny. Rap is self- serving, there isn't a clear message; it's more about making money by any means necessary and it's not careful about exploitation.
I agree(with Ice-T) that this so called rap music has taken the focus away from real hip hop but the blame can't be put on Soulja Boy alone. Why not start with the people buying this garbage because it's about supply and demand. If we can enlighten our children about what real music is there would be no market for this ignorance that passes for music.
Ice was well within his rights to make the statements he made but he should've just left it at that, no need to respond to that little dumbass. I know respect is only worth anything when given freely but lack of respect is what most children learn from day one. No respect for those who made it possible for them to cut a fool and act ignorant. He should've just let it ride- he would've come out smeller fresher if he had.
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