Ice Cube Celebrates The 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop (Exclusive)
At the moment, The Shade Room celebrates the fiftieth Anniversary of Hip Hop and its influence on music and tradition. Not too long ago, rap veteran Ice Dice sat down with the publication’s Director of Social Content material for TSR Teenagers, Taylor Bickham, and mentioned his influence on Hip Hop tradition. Moreover, the 54-year-old shared his ideas on Hip Hop in the present day and even spilled the tea on what occurred with the ‘Friday’ movie franchise and who he blames for delaying a brand new sequel from hitting theaters.
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Ice Dice Explains The Distinction Between Hip Hop Music & Road Violence
Taylor Bickham: Busta [Rhymes] obtained the Lifetime Achievement Award on the 2023 BET Awards. His speech talked so much in regards to the music trade and the way individuals want to like on one another. I needed to get your ideas as somebody that could be a trailblazer in Hip Hop. How do you’re feeling the style has modified, and the place can it develop?
Ice Dice: We at all times acquired to separate the music from the streets… Road s**t ain’t hip hop. Battling is the essence of the sport… However every time that will get bodily, it goes from hip hop to only common previous avenue s**t… So at all times suppose there’s room for battles, at all times suppose there’s room for diss information. Beef is a part of it — however as soon as it goes previous that, it’s crossing the road, and it’s simply common previous avenue s**t.
So what we now have to cease doing is blurring the traces — saying due to this music, these things is occurring on the street. It’s not essentially true. Music is definitely taking stuff off the road and placing it in a inventive means. If someone reverts, then that’s on them… I simply need us to not blur the traces… Now we have to grasp that we will’t give avenue s**t no credit score. It’s grow to be part of the music, and it’s by no means been a part of the music.
A musician may get shot, and a musician may get killed… a musician may shoot someone or kill someone, however it nonetheless goes to avenue s**t. Anyone can try this. So I simply need us to maintain it in perspective [because the sentiment now is that] if it weren’t for this music, none of these things could be taking place. And I’m going to inform you that’s not true. It was all taking place earlier than the music.
The Rapper Shares His Ideas About Utilizing Hip Hop Lyrics Throughout Legal Circumstances
Taylor Bickham: So what about when artists speak about their experiences, and so they put it via their music and lyrics? Then individuals take that, and so they put it in court docket.
Ice Dice: You shouldn’t speak about crime — nothing else must be stated. You shouldn’t speak in regards to the crimes you’ve executed… to no one. On report, on the cellphone, within the womb, in a jail cell — anyplace! It’s unlawful enterprise. So if you happen to put it on a report, yeah, you’re going to be in court docket. It’s proof. You’re admitting your crime.
Taylor Bickham: They lately requested fellow rapper Bow Wow how he feels hip hop goes and who he feels will likely be performed 20 to 30 years from now. So, I’m asking you an identical factor by way of hip hop in the present day. Who’re the individuals, if any, that you simply really feel are going to maneuver the needle in terms of hip hop?
Ice Dice: I don’t know… On the finish of the day, so much has to occur for artists now to be related 20 years from now. So it’s arduous to say who’s the one. However I’m going to inform you what the components [to longevity] are.
Taylor Bickham: Inform me.
Ice Dice: You must be an artist that stands for one thing. If you happen to’re an artist and stand for one thing, then you may have an opportunity. If you happen to’re an artist chasing hits, chasing the radio, and chasing this sound and that sound… and also you don’t speak sufficient, you received’t be round.
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Ice Dice Talks About His Son O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Taylor Bickham: You could have a son following in your footsteps concerning appearing. But in addition, I’ve been eager to know, can he rap?
Ice Dice: Yeah, he can rap. He can bust. He put out a mixtape some time in the past. “OMG” is what he referred to as himself. Oh, My Goodness.
Taylor Bickham: Are you guys going to go on tour collectively? What does that seem like?
Ice Dice: Umm… He’s a film star now! He doesn’t exit on the highway no extra. [I be like,] “Wish to go to the present with me?” He’s like, “Nah, man… I acquired this thang to do.” However I’m very pleased with him. He’s in Spain now doing “Den Of Thieves 2” [and] having a ball. You understand, residing his greatest life.
The Rapper Talks Getting ready His Son For His First Performing Function
Taylor Bickham: I noticed a video the place you advised somebody that… he needed to undergo the method [for his first acting role in “Straight Outta Compton.”] I believe generally individuals really feel such as you had been like, “You! Come on.”
Ice Dice: The coach’s son or the coach’s child… they get it too — worse, They need to undergo hell. So it was that very same philosophy as a result of, for one, I needed him to be good. I needed him to create a profession for himself along with his efficiency. So we had him research in Los Angeles. We had him research in New York. [Then] he acquired bit by the appearing bug [and] he was going to check with or with out us. And he did that for 2 years… [But] he did all the pieces we requested him to do and extra earlier than it was time to shoot it. I’m proud he did all that as a result of he’s an incredible actor.
Taylor Bickham: Yeah, he’s nice. It was arduous for me to look at “Straight Outta Compton” as a result of he appears similar to you.
Ice Dice: It was arduous for me to look at. There was one time once we had been modifying the film — they do the edits, you give them the notes, and so they do extra edits. Generally you go in and sit there with them, after which generally, they ship you the progress of the film. So that you’re watching the film on a regular basis. You watch the film 35 instances earlier than it’s reduce.
Taylor Bickham: I believe the general public assumes that you simply all had been in a position to watch it on the finish.
Ice Dice: No, it’s important to hold chopping [scenes] and shaving. It’s like a sculpture… you retain shaving [and] shaving till it’s excellent. So it’s important to watch it so much. And [as] I’m watching the documentary, I needed to shake my head like, ‘No, no, no, no, this, this isn’t us. It seems like us. But it surely’s not us. That’s not Simple E; that’s not Dre. [But it] seems like us.’
So I used to be like, if this movie can do me like this… the viewers ain’t acquired an opportunity. They’re going to fall into it.
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Ice Dice Spills The Tea Of What Occurred With Warner Brothers & The Film “Friday”
Taylor Bickham: I really feel just like the tradition desires to know, what occurred with ‘Friday’? Is a brand new movie coming?
Ice Dice: I’ve been eager to do it… for years. The factor with me and Warner Brothers [is]… it’s my film, however they’ve the distribution rights. In order that they have the appropriate to distribute the film and the sequels…
Now, with the primary ‘Friday’ film… what was executed was it was referred to as a detrimental pickup. It means they offer us all the cash to make the film, they get out of the way in which, and we convey them again a completed film. Ever since ‘Subsequent Friday’ and ‘Friday After Subsequent,’ they need to give me notes. They need to inform me what it needs to be. And I’m like, “Y’all don’t even know what’s happening… How are you going to inform me?” So, quick ahead, I give them the script in 2013, and so they don’t prefer it. They bug the s**t out of me… 4 or 5 years after that, like, “Are you able to write one other one?”… I write it, and it was nice, and we should always have shot it. [But] they begin f*****g round once more with the notes — dragging on eight to 9 months…to a yr. You understand, it’s not getting over the hump — John Witherspoon passes away. Tiny Lister Jr. passes away. Anthony [AJ] Johnson handed away. And in order that deads the script we had as a result of they had been all in it.
So… I misplaced it as a result of, you understand, they let these nice individuals move away who actually needed to do the final one… so it’s sort of, like, in a stall proper now. However you by no means know. The brand new individuals [at Warner Bro’s] might come to their senses…
Ice Dice’s Particular Message For These Dealing With Gatekeepers
If you happen to recall, Ice Dice additionally sat down for an unique interview with The Shade Room, printed in July. On the time, he revealed that he could be happening a “F**okay The Gatekeepers Podcast Tour” to convey consciousness to the dearth of media protection his basketball league, the Big3, is receiving. Throughout the earlier interview, Dice additionally blamed NBA executives for his or her alleged function.
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Throughout this sitdown, the 54-year-old shared his extra ideas.
Ice Dice: I need to say this about my gatekeepers as a result of I need individuals to grasp what’s happening. However they’re on the market — all people has to take care of them. Determine your individual gatekeepers… [you] won’t need to name him out, however you want a technique on the way you’re going to recover from that gate. You might want to strategize the way you’re going recover from that gate with out [them]. They’re gatekeepers, however they’ll’t keep up 24 hours a day — it’s important to catch [them] sleeping and deal with your online business.
No matter Ice Dice’s present obstacles as a black-owned enterprise proprietor, one factor they can’t take from him is his influence on Hip Hop music in the present day. Take a look at the complete interview beneath!
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