Man, am I conflicted about this new Soulja Boy video, "Donk." On first listen, it sounded like Ice-T's worst fears writ large: A kid yelping about asses and humping the clap beat like Luke was sponsoring a Miami Bass Special Olympics. The moves in the video barely even seemed to correlate to the music while looking like they were given more consideration than the music itself. But with its almost wanton tempo shifts and monotonous typewriter drums, this is just the rap equivalent of Slipknot, something flashy and aggressive for the kids that many adults simply do not need in their life. Plus, what do you really want from the fifth single off an album that had one sole major success, especially if that success was "Crank Dat?" [Pop Eater]
Latest by Tenno: Ice-T doesn't have to say anything anyways, this is the stupidest thing in quite sometime... love how he has the lil kids doing the donk dance... Juniorhighs worldwide gonna see some straight up awesome dance moves this year more »
Grandpa Ice-T and young Soulja Boy may have quashed their beef, but a clip of Ice-T bitching about Soulja last October ("Soulja Boy? The fuck is that? It's garbage! And if the dude doesn't like it, I'll punch him in his face.") that recently popped up on YouTube just may reignite it. Not only does it add a violent threat to the mix, it also casts serious doubt on Ice-T's claims that he was being goaded into dissing Soulja Boy on the mixtape that started it all. Even if Soulja ignores this cane shaking, Lil' Mama ("'My lip gloss be popping?' Get the fuck out of here.") and Mims ("We came all the way from Rakim to 'This Is Why I'm Hot'...) may step up to the star of Surviving The Game with some sequel beef.
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Latest by FunkyJ: Weird...
I had a dream where Frank Sinatra was dissing modern popular music during one of his concerts the other night...
Now I'm really freaked out! more »
ThewarbetweenSoulja BoyandIce-T is over. A-Rab no longer has to be on the lookout for SVU detectives planting evidence. Evil E can walk down the street without wondering if that teenager is going to throw a semen-stained bedsheet on his back, yelling "Yahhh, trick, yahhh!" But while both sides have promised no more YouTubes on the subject, there's little sense of the rift between B.C. (Before Christopher Wallace) and A.D. (After Diddy) rappers being closed. Explains Soulja, "Basically comments were made (by Ice-T) and I had to defend myself," Soulja Boy told AllHipHop. "The GZA had said something about me one time and 50 jumped it in. And this time it was Ice-T and Kanye jumped in it. It's the new Hip-Hop sticking together and I love it." Do you?
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Latest by josh: The American people are the true winners?
Since we have had the unique opportunity to observe and take part in a free exchange of ideas and currently enjoy the historically unprecedented choice of among a near-infinite range of aesthetics and viewpoints?
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So here's a little conspiracy theory for you: What if Ice-T started that whole verbal slapfight with Soulja Boy last week because he wanted to put the word out there that he was ready to feud with anyone .... including Joan Rivers, who led the family opposing his clan on last night's Celebrity Family Feud? Of course, Ice kept it real by working blue on the first question, but you do have to admit that "name something that's slippery and hard to hold on to" is something of a Match Game-sized opening for that sort of thing. [RedLasso]
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Ice-T may be slowly backing away from his fight with YouTube's top rapper/shoe mogul/dance-craze originator, but that's not stopping Soulja Boy, who apparently has a lot of time and bandwidth, from releasing yet another clip going off on his elder and any other "50-year-old" types out there. And this time, it's a cartoon! Really, if you want to get to the only part of the video that sort of goes beyond "LOLd" jokes, just fast-forward to around 4:10 and watch as Soulja Boy uses some video-editing trickery to come up with a new dance, the—wait for it—"Crank That Ice-T." I predict that 10,000 tributes to Ice-T's breakdancing style will be online by sundown. [YouTube]
Latest by imnotthatguyanymore: I think this is from Broken Equipment, the people that made the Dipset Movie videos and "Make Up Sex" with Wayne and Baby. They're all over Youtube. more »
Oh, this Internet age! The Soulja Boy/Ice-T beef may already be over before a single battle track could be laid down, judging by Ice-T's interview with AllHipHop.com. "Soulja Boy, you killed hip-hop" has now become "Soulja Boy, you could try harder," as Ice-T acknowledges the long list of corny-ass dances in hip-hop's career, including Ski Love's "Pee Wee Herman," the video for which just happens to include Ice-T. "That s**t was corny too...so I have a corny strike on my resume. But now it seems like the game is being overtaken by less skillful Hip-Hop. And you notice Joe Ski didn't have a real long career in Hip-Hop." But while he may accept Soulja as an underage Joe Ski, it's going to take a lot more than Kanye West references a bonus track on It Was Written... to make Ice-T think he's the new Nas.
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Latest by Captain Wrong: @Chris Molanphy: Agreed. But ooooh, the Nas and "everything has a second meaning"...umm yeah, sure. Call me when Soulja Boy drops his Illmatic. (Hell, call me when Kanye drops his, for that matter.) more »
Ice-T would like to humbly apologize for telling young Soulja Boy to eat a dick. "Truthfully, a brother of my caliber shouldn't be talking down on a youngster your age." Wait for it..."But as far as your music goes? It's garbage."
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In case you don't have the stomach to watch Soulja Boy's expletive-laden, nearly eight-minutes-long despite edits response to Ice-T saying he ruined hip-hop forevermore, let me sum up its two major arguments. No. 1: "YAHHH OLD YAHHH." (That's a paraphrase.) No. 2: "How are you gonna make a song called 'Fuck Da Police,' then 35 years later, your ass is playing the police on TV?" (That's a direct quote. Personally, I think a youuuuuuuu would have sufficed.) P.S.: This should go without saying on any YouTube clip, but seriously, if you want to retain your faith in the future of this planet, don't read the comments. [YouTube; ht PTW / Earlier]
Latest by Lax Danja House: I'd have thought Ice-T did as much to kill hip hop as Soulja Boy did. Except Ice-T's been making mediocre music for 25 years as opposed to Soulja Boy's 2. more »
Just in case you thought "farm boys from Iowa" contributing to Salon were the only people livid about the effect of Soulja Boy on hip-hop*, SVU veteran and creator of my favorite rap album of all time Ice-T wants you to know that he has no respect for the snap superstar. "We came all the way from Rakim, we came all the way from Das EFX, we came all the way from motherfuckers flowing like Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube, and you come with that Superman shit? That shit is garbage."
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Latest by clevername: In related news, MC Serch just gave Soulja Boy the Gas Face. Did Ice T just wake up from a nap he started in 1989? Last I checked, Soulja's part of a storied crap-rap tradition that's at least more »
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Man, am I conflicted about this new Soulja Boy video, "Donk." On first listen, it sounded like Ice-T's worst fears writ large: A kid yelping about asses and humping the clap beat like Luke was sponsoring a Miami Bass Special Olympics. The moves in the video barely even seemed to correlate to the music while looking like they were given more consideration than the music itself. But with its almost wanton tempo shifts and monotonous typewriter drums, this is just the rap equivalent of Slipknot, something flashy and aggressive for the kids that many adults simply do not need in their life. Plus, what do you really want from the fifth single off an album that had one sole major success, especially if that success was "Crank Dat?" [Pop Eater]
