NELLY DISSES ICE-T? ? ?

There's a little buzz going on right now about a debate I had on here in regards to the whole Ice-T / soulja Boy crap..and now it seems Nelly is weighing in on his opinion. Now yall take a watch and give your opinion on this..Like I said earlier..as I mature in this game as a artist my opinions may change..and they may not. I finally agreed that hip-hop must progress and not stand still, so we can't have that golden era music back. But at the same time..I'm completely NOT down with dissin pioneers in the game to make a point. Now to some degree I can agree with Nelly saying that it is a new day and hip-hop is constantly moving and changing with the times..I won't deny that. It is more evident than ever that this genre is geared more towards the kids who want a gimmick, a dance, a catchy hook to put on their ring tone..and there obvious reason??....they are the ones going out and buying the cd's, the mp3 downloads, the ring tones etc etc..But on some real shit..How can Nelly go at Ice like "Look in the mirror..Ice-T is old type of talk. I'll say it again and again..Ice is from a era where you had to earn your respect to get in this game. You had to come correct every time and deal with a very critical audience. And although money has a dated opinion..he's sticking up for what he believes in. And this is Integrity and Respect in hip-hop music. Which I firmly believe in as well..I also have to take into consideration the 2008 mind state of what's going on...it's a thin line..

You peep the clip and tell me what you think. All I'm sayin at this point is I'd like to make a official call out to Ice-T on what to do at this point.


Ice-T is a don, a gangsta, a certified pimp, and old school legend..now he's pimping the TV industry with a solid role on Law & Order making crazy dollars. Ice, what you need to do is follow suit with the game right now and take it to your advantage. Hip-hop is run by dudes with paper behind them. You can be the flyest rhymer on sight , but with no paper........good luck.

So Ice..I'm calling on you to do the following...........
1. Get your money together which won't be difficult..
2. Call up Dr. Dre and cop a couple tracks
3. Maybe even join forces with 50 Cent..(he's on that so called gangsta shit)
4. Get a fly video shot with Dr. Dre on production
5. Enlist some west coast dudes selling units (Dre, Snoop, The Game, Ice Cube)
And put out a record. I guarantee with that formula you'll be back in the game correctly forcing people to fall back. (and don't forget to keep Dj Evil E on the cuts!)
I'm willing to only take 15% of all sales...haha..but on some real shit that formula is possible and would do the game some good. Ice-T "Power" a real hip-hop classic.

ICE-T VS SOULJA PART 2

INFO COURTESY OF SOHH.COM

Veteran gangsta rapper Ice-T has released another video aimed at Soulja Boy in response to the Southern rapper's YouTube clip, making no apologies for starting the beef with the 17 year-old hip-hopper.

In his latest video, Ice-T explains that his original comments were made only after being asked his feelings on the state of hip-hop and on Soulja Boy.



Ice-T admits that as a rap legend he shouldn't have talked down to the teen but says he still believes Soulja Boy's music is garbage.

"Hip-Hop has to last forever and it ain't gonna last with you doing that superman bullsh*t man," Ice-T said. "That sh*t is whack, trust me." [Watch Below]

He goes on to say Soulja Boy never should've responded.

"When I dissed you, there's no ramifications you know," he said. "You can't hurt my career cause I'm caked out, there's nothing you can do to hurt me."

The beef began after Ice-T blamed Soulja Boy for being responsible for the death of hip-hop.

Soulja Boy then made his own video response questioning Ice-T's career choices.

"This n*gga Ice-T old as f*ck!" Soulja Boy said as he laughed into his web cam. "This n*gga old enough to be my great grandfather. I Wikipedia'ed this n*gga, he was born in 1958. [He] claims he's from the West Coast, n*gga you were born in New Jersey, dawg. Who is Ice-T, dawg? How you gonna make a song called ["Cop Killer"] and 35 years later your ass playing the police on TV, 'Law and Order'. This ain't no beef."

Despite the criticism from Ice-T, hip-hop megastar Kanye West spoke out on his blog in support of Soulja Boy.

"Soulja boy is fresh ass hell and is actually the true meaning of what hip hop is supposed to be," he wrote. "He came from the hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song. He had all of America rapping this summer. If that ain't hip-hop then what is? N*ggas always talk about the golden age but for a 13 year-old kid, this is the golden age!!! Keep this sh*t fresh and original.... ain't no f*ckin' rules to this sh*t and that's what real hip hop is to me."
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NOW I CAN SEE SOUJA'S POSITION BEING YOUNG, BROKE, COMING UP TRYING TO GET PAID AND SUDDENLY GETTING SUCCESS..AND HATS OFF TO HIM. BUT I ALSO SEE ICE'S SIDE AS WELL WITH MORE MEANING. I DON'T THINK IT'S A ICE-T VS SOULJA BOY BEEF. IT'S A REAL HIP-HOP VS COMMERICAL POP BEEF. AND THE SAD THING IS SOUJA BOY IS CONSIDERED HIP-HOP BY THE NEWS MEDIA. I THINK THAT'S WHERE TO FRUSTRATION BEGINS. EVERYONE IN HIP-HOP MUSIC IS SCARED TO UNITE IN REGARDS TO BRINGING ACTUAL TALENT BACK TO THE GAME. ITS EITHER ONE OR TWO CATS THAT SPEAK THEIR MIND..THEN THE ISSUE QUICKLY DISAPPEARS. THEY SAY THINGS MOVE IN CYCLES..WELL I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE LEGIT HIP-HOP CYCLE TO COME AROUND FOR A DECADE NOW! I MEAN GZA VOICED HIS OPINION LIVE ON STAGE REGARDING SOUJA BOY AND 50 CENT. BOTH 50 AND SOUJA FIRED BACK. THEN............? NOTHING. WHERE'S WU @? NOBODY HAS EACH OTHERS BACK ANYMORE. NOW WE HAVE SOUJA LAUGHING IT OFF WITH A VIDEO RESPONSE TO ICE CALLING HIM OLD AND OUTDATED ETC. WE NEED UNITY IN HIP-HOP! EVERYBODY IS TOO SCARED TO SAY SOMETHING FEARING RECORD SALES WILL BE EFFECTED. I'M SEEING TIME AND TIME AGAIN OLD SCHOOL LEGENDS GETTING DISSED BY THE YOUNGER GENERATION AND EVERYBODY'S TOO SHOOK TO SAY SOMETHING! AND NOW WE GOT KANYE CO-SIGNING SOULJA AND A INTERNET BUZZ QUESTIONING ICE-T BEING A LEGEND. ARE YOU FUCKEN KIDDING ME!??? HERE'S A LITTLE HIP-HOP 101..ICE-T IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A HIP-HOP LEGEND! TREND-SETTIN RHYME FLOWS, GANGSTA RAP STYLES,,AND THE CROSSOVER FROM RAPPING TO ACTING. GET IT TOGETHER YALL! SHIT..THIS SHIT CONTINUES I MAY HAVE TO GET UP IN THE BOOTH AND START REPRESENTIN FOR THE VETS WHO KEEP GETTIN SLEPT ON! TO BE CONTINUED!

REAL HIP-HOP -vs- HIP-POP COMMERCIAL RAP

NOW I'M SURE YALL HAVE HEARD ONE OF THE LATEST BEEFS THAT IS GETTING MEDIA COVERAGE..IT'S THE STATEMENTS MADE BY HIP-HOP VETERAN/LEGEND ICE-T AGAINST COMMERCIAL RAPPER SOULJA BOY. ICE RECENTLY WAS QUOTED IN THE MEDIA AS SAYING "FUCK SOULJA BOY EAT A DICK" WITH SOULJA RESPONDING CALLING ICE OLD AND OUTDATED. I ALSO REMEMBER THE SAME TYPE OF WORDS BEING SAID BETWEEN WU-TANG'S GZA AND SOULJA BOY EARLIER IN THE YEAR.
IN MY OPINION..SOUJA IS THE "POSTER BOY" FOR WHY HIP-HOP/RAP IS IN THE TOILET. NOW I CAN'T SPEAK ON IT TOO MUCH BEING THAT I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY OF SOULJA'S MUSIC. BUT IN THIS DAY IN AGE WITH HIT SONGS LIKE "EY BABY EY BABY" & CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP" RUNNING THE RADIO AND VIDEO CHANNELS..YOU CAN'T HELP BUT SYMPATHIZE WITH THESE DUDES VIEWS.

MY PERSONAL OPINION IS...I FEEL HIP-HOP HAS BEEN IN NEED OF HELP IN MASS MEDIA FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS. FOR SOME ODD REASON THE MORE YOU ARE TRUE TO HIP-HOP CULTURE, THE MORE MASS MEDIA WILL IGNORE YOU. NOW IN 2008, HIP-HOP IS BEING RUN BY TEENAGERS WHO DON'T WANT TO HEAR A MESSAGE OR IN DEPTH LYRICS WITH BANGIN BEATS. THEY WANT TO DANCE AND SING LYRICS WITH A GIMMICK. IT'S A DIFFERENT TIME NOW AND I UNDERSTAND THAT. WHAT I'VE BEEN HOPING FOR YEARS..IS THAT SINCE HIP-HOP MUSIC (YOU KNOW WHAT I'M NOT GOING TO USE THE TERM "HIP-HOP" BECAUSE FOR THE MOST PART HIP-HOP IS DEAD SO I'LL CALL IT RAP) SINCE "RAP MUSIC" HAS BEEN SO HORRIBLE FOR SUCH A LONG TIME, THAT THE FANS WOULD FINALLY GET SICK OF THE CRAP RAP GOING DOWN AND DEMAND THAT REAL HIP-HOP TAKE BACK OVER THE GAME. WE'RE NOT QUITE THERE YET..BUT WE'RE SLOWLY GETTING CLOSE.

WE HAVE RAPPERS LIKE ICE-T, GZA, AND DON'T FORGET MONIE LOVE (TAKING A STAND AGAINST YUNG JEEZY A WHILE BACK SAYING HIP-HOP IS DEAD FOR THE MOST PART) STANDING UP FOR REAL HIP-HOP MUSIC REFUSING TO TAKE THIS SHIT ANYMORE. WE NEED MORE OF THIS TO HAPPEN! GETTING THE VETERANS BACK IN THE MEDIA, AND TAKING OVER HIP-HOP AGAIN IS ESSENTIAL!

TAKE A LOOK AT THE CD COVER OF ICE-T.."POWER"! SUCH A CLASSIC. I REMEMBER WHEN IT FIRST DROPPED..ME AND MY MAN COSE WE'RE ROCKING PIECES IN BLACKBOOKS BACK THEN LISTENING TO POWER OVER AND OVER AGAIN..GETTING US AMPED UP AND RECITING THE LYRICS AS WE WERE WRITING GRAFFITI. SUCH FOND MEMORIES OF THAT CD. I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST CAME OUT TO L.A...ME AND REPPOND(VERBAL THREAT)ROCKED A SHOW AT THE VIPER ROOM AND MET DJ EVIL E ICE-T'S DJAY (WHO IS ON THE COVER) MONEY GAVE US MAD LOVE FOR KEEPIN IT REAL AND STILL TO THIS DAY STAY IN CONTACT. THAT'S A FRIENDSHIP BUILT ON MUTUAL RESPECT FOR REAL HIP-HOP..REAL DUDES DOING REAL MUSIC.

IN CLOSING..PEACE TO THE MC'S AND DJAYS THAT REPRESENT REAL HIP-HOP STANDING UP FOR OUR CULTURE AND SPEAKING OUT!@ OBVIOUSLY NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO DO IT SO IT MIGHT AS WELL BE THE PIONEERS. NUFF RESPECT TO ICE-T,DJ EVIL E, RHYME SYNDICATE, GZA, MONIE LOVE, AND OF COURSE THE PRESIDENT OF HIP-HOP KRS-ONE! LET'S TAKE THE GAME BACK!
-KOOL SPHERE-