Ice Cube Calls ‘Bullsh-t’ On Claim N.W.A. Brought Destruction To Hip Hop

Ice Dice has referred to as bullshit on the claims that his seminal group, N.W.A., introduced destruction to the Hip Hop style.

Taking to Twitter on Thursday (September 28), the “No Vaseline” rapper responded to a fan’s declare that his music introduced nothing however bother to Black and Latino communities.

“Bullshit,” he wrote. “Crack was within the neighborhoods a decade earlier than gangsta rap. Within the 70s they referred to as it freebase. So was heroine, weed, Mollys, gangbanging, drive bys, pimping and hoing, dropping out of college, younger ladies getting pregnant, cussing and the utilizing the phrase N-gga. It was all right here earlier than NWA.”

Try the tweet under.

Bullshit. Crack was within the neighborhoods a decade earlier than gangsta rap. Within the 70s they referred to as it freebase. So was heroine, weed, Mollys, gangbanging, drive bys, pimping and hoing, dropping out of college, younger ladies getting pregnant, cussing and the utilizing the phrase Nigga. It was… https://t.co/XK5QAdWRnU

— Ice Dice (@icecube) September 28, 2023

The fan’s declare echoed Particular Ed’s current, related declare about Ice Dice and N.W.A., which he made whereas he was a visitor on Drink Champs on September 16.

“N.W.A. got here out, and their shit was hardcore — and I mentioned, ‘see, they’ll say what they need,’” he mentioned on the favored podcast. “However the label didn’t wish to market me that manner. And I had arduous shit.”

He continued: “They didn’t need that. They needed business music. All of us needed to be authentic. Now, it’s a bandwagon impact. Now, it’s all about cloning. These guys […] ushered within the age of destruction.”

However KXNG Crooked went on TMZ Reside on Monday (September 25) to dispute these claims.

“Let me speak to you, my brother,” he started, respectfully. “We didn’t stay in a utopia till Straight Outta Compton dropped. Straight Outta Compton is a masterful, street-conscious album. That’s not glorification. We gotta actually take heed to it. JAY-Z mentioned, ‘do you actually take heed to it, or do you skim by it?’”

He continued: “This destruction has all the time been right here since we touched this soil, and artwork imitates life, my brother. That’s what occurs. Go learn The Destruction of the Black Civilization. I don’t assume NWA introduced the destruction age. I believe they highlighted it. That was it.”

On the music finish of issues, Ice Dice has simply introduced his first solo album in 5 years, Man Down.

Throughout a dialog with Chuck D’s RAPstation, the California native revealed that he’s including the ending touches to his subsequent album and that will probably be prepared for launch very quickly.

“I’m engaged on an album that hopefully I can end within the subsequent couple of weeks and schedule to place it out,” he mentioned. “I’m digging what I’m doing. The title of the document is known as Man Down, and, , it’s a reasonably good document. It prefer it. It’s dope.”

He additionally took the chance to replicate on his profession and the way it has formed the particular person he’s at this time: “It’s a blessing, actually. For one, I made a promise to myself after I received on this enterprise that I wouldn’t let it change who I’m as an individual, so I used to be all the time keen to let the chips fall the place they might and never fear about ‘I can’t do that or my profession can be over’ or ‘if I do that, will this occur?’

“While you broke while you’re beginning off, going again to being broke just isn’t a problem. That’s not motivation, like ‘I’m going to be broke once more, let me bow right down to this bullshit.’ No.”