Daekwon Da Prophet agree. I can only find creative lyrics and storytelling in metal nowadays. Shame. Growing up listening to groups/bands like bdp & slayer, lyrics & music nowadays, for the most part, got worse.
Realised that when he asked him the question about Lethal Weapon, and how that sounds like it's about guns. Immediately my brain was singing the chorus "you think I'm violent, but listen and you will find: my lethal weapon's my mind"
Arsenio Hall was on from 1989-94 and the powers that be took him off because they said he was too "inner city"...IDIOTS!.. HE was terrific at what he did!..I'm a 74 year old white guy for what it's worth...
From gang member to hustler/rapper, to playing a cop on TV/playing in movies... this man did it all, played in many decent movies, and owns a couple companies... Nobody back in those days took him too seriously after he shifted to movie celebrity, but he was brilliant in how he moved through life
jakethemuss3 Arsenio ain’t on now for the exact reason you see in this interview; the further along he went the more anti white he got. You see Ice mocking whites here, then Arsenio turned around and did the same thing. He did himself in because he alienated whites. I watched him as a kid too. Then I quit watching him because he got further and further into being anti white. He shunned 3/4 of his audience.
bandit7498 Didn't know that. Even if you not someone's race you gotta be able to judge a person by their character and integrity rather than what their race is known for in a whole. If he really was being racist then it was good that his show got cancelled.
@@shane-o-matic Two words. Vanilla Ice. Arsenio Hall is a fucking punk. Go watch that interview he did with V-Ice & tell me he wasn't channelling an "anti-white" agenda.
michael Jacobs how the fuck do u know he doesnt know people? I swear , humans just love projecting whatever they like onto whatever they see, u dont know this cat and u dont know how he is in real life
it's cause growing up they talked white. As they got older they realized oh im black but never grew up or lived in the hood. But im gonna talk and act like a i did. 90% of blacks
He’s consistent in EVERY video, even this far back. Be never said, he was a Crip, just affiliated because of where he lived. Ain’t no frontin’ goin’ on. Dude seems solid to me.
The homies that don't get too close are the smart ones. If T had been a bona fide 100% Crip he probably would never have had the career he's enjoyed all these decades. Either a heinous crime would catch up with him or (more likely) they would snuff him out for leaving the gang.
Yep and he couldve easily claimed affiliation and cashed in for the short run but he told the truth stayed true and is still going strong 30 years later as a result
Ice is one of the most down to earth people in the industry. I was helping a group out of AZ and we were recording at Ice’s house. Ice sat down with these young men and gave them an hour and a half of advice on how not to get screwed in the industry for free.
+300daysandnights Ice T (which is his moniker) is an original gangster individual from the mean streets of Los Angeles. It seems he doesn't get his due recognition for his work ethics and achievements. Verdict: I have to concur with the previous statement.
+300daysandnights Maybe the problem isn't so much the bad grammar as it is the dumbasses who either don't wanna put in the effort or don't have the creativity to get what somebody else is sayin. I got what he was tryna say; what's your problem?
Makeveli The Don maybe he doesn't want to get more credit and be Hugely famous in the limelight. real Gs can maintain & do their business, and still keep everything on the Low (personal life, family, business,etc.) at the end of the day - I think Ice T is doing just fine.
@@JonO387 And lemme guess, you're a racist lol? Much better! ew. How dumb. He's literally the most cookie cutter cop playing family man there is ya weirdo.
He never put in work for the hood he grew up he wasn’t a gangsta he was a hustler or you calling him og cause he is old lol 😂 he did serve the military that I salute him for
@@datapusher- I don't think the industry colluded they just saw the sales of Gangsta Rap and went after artists who did that style they went after the money which is what they always do. It is a shame Conscious Rap is my favorite Subgenre and I agree it is sad it faded a bit into the background though. People like Deniro Farrer and Locksmith need more recognition imo.
Ronald DGK"I'm your pusher" "high rollers" "lethal weapon" "ricochet" are my favorites + anything from the body count albums but those are more punk rock
Ronald DGK Listen to "What Ya Wanna Do?" featuring Ice-T and Rhyme Syndicate. It features Everlast before he rose to greater prominence in House of Pain. The song appears on "The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech...Just Watch What You Say" (1989). The music video is on RU-vid, and the album is still available on both compact disc and vinyl. Warning: if you listen to this song, you'll never listen to today's hip hop the same way again. There's at least half a dozen rappers on this song along that are miles ahead of the biggest mainstream rap names of today. Listen to the tempo of the song, these guys are rapping at a million miles an hour. Also, it runs for eight minutes, not one profanity--I feel that today's hip hop relies way too much on profanity, it get tiresome very quickly. You didn't get that back in the day, and the N-word wasn't used three or four times a verse like it is today.
MisterObjectivity u are absolutely correct. Todays songs bring back words that werent used back then. Some of the words were an insult back then, but now those words are turning to an everyday used word, and whats more discouraging is that they are being used by little kids, and teens.
I love ice t..he's not only an underrated rapper ,but also a humble person who never had any beef with other rappers..actually seen him talk positive about other rappers..
I mean there was a pretty unhealthy culture surrounding Hip Hop at the time, right? It was a source of credibility to be a criminal among other things, and if you weren't in a gang you were seen as irrelevant. It's the unhealthy side of Rap, and given that the majority of modern Rap focuses on the same old concepts (guns, women, drugs) I don't think they have evolved at all, just that (successful) modern rappers are almost always posers (Papa Doc lookalikes) and have no idea what they are talking about. Ice-T was a Renaissance man, he didn't go the path of his contemporaries, and I think that really shows considering what happened to some of the big names at the time who were living that life (and so many lesser known people). The man is living life to the fullest, has a family, is a multimillionaire, and is in his sixties. Getting grief over making the right choice is pretty nuts.
Ice T was schooling anyone willing to listen. This is a relevant message today too. First rapper I ever personally bought the album of. Way back in the day..
Huge fan of Ice T since 84 when Breakin' came out then bought rhyme pays, power, iceberg and OG he's one of the pioneer gangsta rappers alongside schoolly D his lyrics on power absolutely awesome.
he's the man. everytime I stumble upon an interview with him, from any point in his career, it has been very insightful and packed with TRUTH. he's a really smart and badass dude.
Respect to Ice-T, always fucking walked it how he talked it...even put on rappers from the UK, the legendary Hijack crew, damn; even Everlast was down with the Rhyme Syndicate...Ice is an absolute genius. Whole world got love for him!
The one thing about Ice-T is that he always told the truth as he saw it. You didn't have to agree with the cat, but you could never deny his genuine nature. FLTG for life!
Back then, a lot of rappers were on code, Ice Cube, PE, BDP, Big Daddy Kane, Run-DMC, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Common, X-Clan, Paris, Jungle Brothers, Rakim, Stet, Queen Latifah, 2Pac, even NWA had Fuck The Police. Rappers were just built differently back then...today not so much...rap is pure trash today
Not all of it. But you have to realize we were the hip hop generation. This music was our culture. Kids now are 2 generations removed from the culture it’s just another genre of music to them
ice t was so ahead of his time , really the first rapper to make that mainstream jump to film he was a pioneer in this way , he is so well spoken and well read knowledge is the key to everything never quit gaining knowledge , turn the tv off the radio off and pick up a book .. theres a reason the old saying goes if you want to hide something from a black man put it in a book .. our history is all lies what we were told is false we never broke away from england the queen owns all of our properties look at the deed to your house really close it says we pay a tax to the crown and dont own any of our homes .. Prince will I AM the beast is taking power , turn to JESUS CHRIST
Ice -T the inventor of Gangster Rhyme n never encouraged it. Shudda got knowledge from school books instead of st. Crooks now im in the penitentiary all i get is hard looks. Love him grew up with him. O.G Smart clever intelligent and a genius. Upmost respect; always be the first one to kick off the underground G-style. ☺🙋👍✌👆
This is honest to god the only time I heard someone explain clearly the gang mindset and the vicious cycle that causes the gang mentality, he's one of the most articulate rappers ive heard actually speaking!
I ran into ICE T at a De La Soul show at the House Of Blues in Hollywood, years ago...i said hi to him, and shook his hand...he was by himself, cool dude
You school someone when you change their opinion or educate them on something. Arsenio didn't seem ignorant to anything being said, nor did he appear to have an opinion that needed changing.
Ice-T went on and joined the Army, became an Army Ranger, was stationed in Hawaii. I don't remember the island though. Oahu, Hawaii was my 1st duty station, I walked into an office somewhere and there was a huge cardboard posting that had all the celebrities who served, there names were on in. That's where I saw Ice-T's name 🤙
For those that don't know Ice T and his music...listen to Mind over Matter. Or another that is applicable would be "Freedom of Speech". I was introduced to his music at a very early age and one day will meet him and thank him for making a difference in who I am today.
50,000 million is a number. It's 50 Billion, just said in a different way. He wasn't actually trying to say 50 Billion, but he isn't wrong to use it the way he did. It's like 1 million is the same as one thousand thousand. We don't usually speak this way, but they are actual numbers.
Yup that's what I heard as a kid still fresh in my mind. I grew up in the hood too. Great clip it's been years/decades since I seen it. Ice-T was right. and still is. Thx Ice-T
