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. 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.”
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.
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. 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.”
Soulja Boy’s third new song of the past week is “Go Hard,” a boast that manages to dis Kanye West, refer to any other MCs out there as “ninja turtles,” and not use the “Crank That” steel-drum beat during its entire two minutes and 43 seconds. Helpfully, Soulja Boy has cut and pasted the lyrics in the YouTube “about” box, and, well, between reading these words and listening to Tokio Hotel, I’m starting to wonder just what this world is going to be like when I hit retirement age. In case you don’t want to stream the entire song, I’ve listed the five “best” lines from the track after the jump.
Apparently the call-out research on “iDance,” Soulja Boy’s last new single (you may remember it from, um, Friday), rushed in over the weekend and was overwhelmingly negative, because the tenacious young MC has already put out his next new single, “She Gotta Donk.” More »
• The song is called “iDance.” Not “I Dance.” (And the album it’s on will be called iSouljaBoy, not, as I thought when I was told about it last night, I, Soulja Boy. The latter sounds a lot more majestic, I have to say.) • The kids now use “YouTube” as a verb. More »
Those of you who enjoyed the snippet of Soulja Boyz II Men that was in the Real’s “Failed Ideas In Hip-Hop” video earlier this week may be thrilled to know that the comedy duo has come up with a puppetry-employing video for the track–and while, like many mashups, the song falls apart a bit on the… More »
This video of “failed ideas in hip-hop” has its moments–the RickRossRoll being one that some enterprising YouTuber should seize upon immediately–but the last 30 seconds, which are taken over by an unholy wedding between “Crank That” and “End Of The Road,” may be the most sublime sound-collision… More »
