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Death Of Rap, Part 243
Cinematical reports that Ice Cube, who once had a promising career as a man with integrity, is set to star in an adaption of a comic book.
Smell that? It’s the last of Ice Cube’s fans burning their NWA albums.
Cube’s most recent offering of his tender anus to The Man caused me to reflect on the total whorishness of rap’s first wave of so-called “ghetto poets.” Just like some pathetic welfare bitch, they have proved themselves eager to take whatever load they can in order to stay on the government dole.
Let’s look at the disillusioning of the rap generation:
Queen Latifah - She started out in several rap groups before setting out on her own at the age of 19 with the solo album All Hail The Queen. Her biggest hits commercially and critically dealt with women’s issues and racism. Now, Queen Latifah hawks Cover Girl makeup and stars in shitty family films like Taxi.
Oh, and eats pussy.
DMX - released several hard-hitting albums, including one that famously started a verbal war with Tupac Shakur. Now he stars in idiotic poser-action films like Cradle 2 The Grave.
Ice T - One of the toughest rappers out there, he created a huge stir by mixing metal guitars with rap on the famous Body Count album, and threatened police with Cop Killer. Now, this supposedly dangerous rapper stars in crap like Breakin’2 : Electric Bugaloo and Leprechaun: In The Hood. Brilliant.
LL Cool J - The rapper with the smooth, hard edge could never seem to properly use a stick of deodorant, but his momma still wanted you knocked out. The guy was one of the first rappers to bring the form into the mainstream, and yet today he stars in mindblowing junk like Deep Blue Sea and Charlie’s Angels. Unbelievable.
Tupac Shakur - Thankfully he’s dead, thereby preventing him from further tarnishing his image. Tupac, one of the most important rappers ever, ruined his brief career with horrible turns in horrible movies like Poetic Justice and Above The Rim.
And then there’s Ice Cube. This guy really irks me because he helped create one of the greatest rap acts of all time in NWA. That band tirelessly decried government bias, corporate greed, and racist discrepancies. They stood for the common man who was sick of being bullied and forgotten.
So what did Ice Cube do with this important vehicle for inspiration and change? He left it so that he could carve out a career as the biggest sellout this side of Eddie Murphy.
Ultimately it proves that all of these rappers - and those who emulate them - have no real merit or integrity. Their “music” was simply the new basketball - a way to get out of poverty. Once they tasted that money and fame, they greedily grabbed for more.
And now, they are just like The Man that they used to hate.
I sure hope they sell all of the makeup, clothes, jewelry, and movie tickets they need to help them forget that they have lost their soul.
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I don’t have a problem with these guys doing this. I think people would bash them even more if they were going around still trying to pretend to be “Gangstas”. The fact is Ice Cube and Ice-T are in there 40’s now and it would be ridiculous if they were still trying to pretend to be held down living in the hood.
They grew up and moved on, some people just try to keep milking what made them famous, even if they aren’t still that person. When NWA came out Ice Cube was hungry to prove something. Now he doesn’t have to prove anything, so he moved on.
He got a shot in “Boyz N Tha Hood” and stole the movie. The guy is a good actors and it’s a better living than the music business, so why not go with it. He doesn’t try to play thug characters anymore, because he’s in his 40’s.
He has a family and he is just trying to what gives his family the best living, can you fault that. He seems like a good guy, he’s a good actor and funny. He should be in movies and not tarnishing his rap legacy, like most of the other one trick rap ponies out there.
Please tell me you’re joking bout Ice Cube. Have you seen “Are We There Yet?” or “Are We Done Yet?” He is trading his image and persona for the quick bucks of family film hell. Just like Steve Martin. Just like Eddie Murphy.
Except he was a rap artist who despised the system and spoke out against it.
He made more than enough money with rap that he didn’t need to sell out. Live your morals and walk away.
It’s the movies that Sam is talking about like “Are There Yet”, “Are We Done Yet” that make people mad at a former rapper like Ice Cube. I have no problems with him starring in movies like Friday, although the 13 sequels they made were a BAD idea. I have to agree with Sam on most of the above…Queen Latifah, and Ice Cube especially.
Don’t know so much about your Tupac comment. I agree, the roles sucked, but watch that wording Sambo. You know how fussy people get.
Street cred out the window.
Ray you are exactly right once they tasted the fame and money they left Compton for Beverly Hills and never looked back.
I got mine, fuck the rest of you niggers.