“Don’t start that article with none of that Ice-T disses Rick Ross bullsh*t,” - Ice-T
At the world premiere screening of VH1's Rock Doc, Plant Rock ; The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation, Ice T shared his thoughts on Rick Ross and More.
That last bit, Ice is referencing rappers out there today like Rick Ross, who becomes a focal point in the last 15 minutes or so of Planet Rock. Despite all of the hard work that the hip hop community did to help to position crack as a demonic drug (think Public Enemy‘s “Night Of The Living Baseheads,” think Too Short‘s “The Ghetto”) and the amount of damage the drug did to the black community, a new breed of rappers have pushed themselves to the top of the game by bragging about their alleged association with the world of organized crime and the drug scene, despite large amounts of evidence that they’re actually poseurs.
“That’s fake,” Ice-T blurts out. “Rick Ross stole a n****’s name. I call him ‘Identity Crisis.’ He thinks he’s [Freeway] Rick Ross, he thinks he’s Larry Hoover, he thinks he’s Big Meech, he thinks he’s MC Hammer, he thinks he’s Tupac. Like, who the f*ck are you really, dude?”
“When we rapped about dope me, Snoop and everybody it was like we doin’ it because we GOT to. Now these n***** is actin’ like it’s somethin’ that’s FUN. It’s so easy to fantasize about it. To actively do it? That’s a whole ‘nother f*ckin’ thing.
“Rap is pop right now,” he explains. “Q-Tip said, ‘Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop.’ Rap was a counterculture that went against pop.But when you have Rihanna singin’ on your records and you’re doin’ records with Katy Perry, that’s no longer rap. It’s pop music, pop using rap delivery. When you hear Lil Wayne sayin’ ‘I got a chopper in the car,’ you go, ‘Yeah, right you do.‘”
VH1′s latest entry in our award-winning Rock Doc series, Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation debuts this Sunday night, September 18, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
