Starts at 00:41. Full Drink Champs episode: • Video Ice-T calls this a "gang rap", but he wrote it in high school (early-mid 70s), which was before Hip Hop started (late 70s). Another term he's used for raps like these is "Crip Rhyme".
Ice T has had a very interesting life. Army, pimp, robber, musician, rapper, actor and entrepreneur. Like 5 lifetimes worth Update: Bumped into him on Wall Street about two weeks ago when he was taking a breather from shooting one of those SVU or CSI shows he does. Being from NY and seeing and knowing famous people I don’t usually stop to say Hi, but in his case I did. Nice guy.
that rap he tossed out gave me a chill and the look in his eye at the end seemed to bring back memories of a pass life he's probably happy to be away from
Ice t wrote about other ppls life t Is an artist no doubt he's seen alot but more than likely heard more and learned more through his homies and community
@@jamesrob5114 i hate to burst your bubble but many years ago somebody i went to school with knew the same people he was hanging around in LA and said he was all about the lifestyle in a big way!..that's why some of his early work is telling kids don't go down that path before it ends badly...be safe an stay healthy
@@labenbrittenum6934 thanks.. you to. But he will even say he was more of a Hustler he was never in a gang don’t you remember this is the same guy that dress like Madonna breaking days..
Mr. M A J E S T I C XIII . Blackstruggle77 not like Chicago, we had people to answer to back then. If you did some something savage without permission or a good reason you had consequences at least in Long Beach we did.
Kev Mac Videos!!! Kev Mac is from Rollin 60s as well and he was friends with Ice T. His channel has the deepest history of LA and Compton you will find. You'll be amazed.
I'm from Johannesburg, South Africa and Ice-T was one of the hottest rappers growing up in the late 80s. His "Hunted Child" song is still one of the best raps I've ever heard. Ice-T's social commentary was some of the most compelling narratives I've ever heard.
Ice said he had "diplomatic immunity"(could go in any hood). he was like a M.c slash d.j... he could rap and various gangs would request shout outs when he performed...he had ties but basicly repped the whole south central movement in its infant stages of hip hop...what we know today as gangster rap .
5:12 exactly. Booyaa TRIBE was the first to bang on wax even back in the late 80s they just not as big as NWA and ICE T but they some West Coast pioneers. Legends
Nobody was checking for booyaa tribe outside of Carson. Nobody was checking for quick outside of Compton. Ice T took the hood shit national in '86 with "6 in the morning" . I know cuz I was there.everything else is fairy tales.
That is what got me listening to Ice T, when he spit gangsta rap. It was my first time ever hearing anything like it. I’ll never forget him rapping about rolling up on a mark parked at the curb, spraying him with an uzi sub machine gun the imagry was so grafic
@fixation station Exactly! I keep telling these dummy's a freestyle is a unrehearsed rap or song unwritten and never performed until that very moment! Anything else is a performance.
After all his movie and TV series success, Ice T is a REAL one who hasn't conformed for industry acceptance nor has he forgotten where he came from. I'm sure he's matured and grown as a man, but he still that same dude he was 40 years ago
ICE T was and is the one that brought "GANGSTA RAP" to light... His music was always dope and kicked reality. I remember when ICE T first came on the scene for me with, 6 in the morning.
"Lethal Weapon" was my favorite track by Ice-T!!! That song gqve me energy and made me want to destroy things using telekinetic forces!!! LOL!! I was a kid.
Living legend he might not have been the most lyrical emcee ever but he told his reality and ,like he said out the whole west on his back . Ppl always credit N.W.A. for bringing gangsta rap to the fore front but everybody always sleep on T ...the song colors nuff said . This man has done it acting , hip hop , and has a bad ass metal band .
@C. dont try to make it seem like its a strategy the guy is just terrible he asks a bunch of ignorant questions, interrupts guests while they are about to get into interesting stories,has a bunch of homies in the studio that wont stfu and every interview he ends up the drunkest person in the room. He cant construct an interview and since efn just sits around doing nothing the guests are forced to do it and it shows in this interview thank God Ice is straight to the point doesnt let Nore interrupt him and gets right back to the story when he does cause otherwise we would ve lost a lot of gems from this interview
@Juan Bowen stop clowning nothing in rap started in west coast. Even Pac was east coast. Rap started in the Bronx but Kool hurk, first battle rapper Kool Moe Dee, and first gangsta rapper is schooley D. Even ice t admitted that in an interview. And you get no stripes for robbing someone on your own turf. Why didn't he come to NYC and do it. Smh
I was born and raised in South Cali. To me it’s normal life but after looking at other gang maps like NY,Chicago, and it made me think oh man no wonder why people are scared when they come here !
ice is telling you how it was..great story teller....I love him for that..but even then he knew that fully committing to any set was never leading him to the potential he had. It would only lead to destruction. Smart man...
Ice T put many of our peoples reality out there even though he was from the west coast. It was reality for many of us all over the nation, that’s why it was relatable.
remind me of Everyhood USA! like on my block back in the day, OGs on the corner dropping that science to us youngins. if they see you on the block during school hours and you're not sick, "Why ain't u in school Lil Harp?" Those guys were righteous, they smoked and drank but they'd NEVER give you any or let someone get u hooked on something. We had HONOR back then. Now everybody is out for self!
someone spoke on Ice-T writing gangsta rhymes or poetry before rap was invented or popular on the west coast. I believe he revised it though to make it sound harder.
As someone from England, my first gangsta rap track i heard was probably "betta bring a gun" i remember 6 in the mornin, I never thought Schoolly D was a gangster rapper, but Ice T is held in very high regard in the UK I always liked "Body rock"
The interviewer irritated me with all the interruptions. Lol. And you can see it also bothered Ice-T, but he’s a professional. I remember hearing about this cat back in the 80’s in my neighborhood. A true hustler. I’m glad that he pointed out all of that old school non-color wearing in the music industry. Rap cats ALWAYS told you where they were from, without saying it, if you knew the streets, the symbols, and lingo. But nowadays everybody on “super thug” status, banging and claiming any and everything, on some stupid shit. Smh. Backwards ass progression.
