Ice Dice will not be a fan of rappers mailing of their performances — and has let his emotions be heard loud and clear.
Throughout a latest live performance in Houston, the N.W.A legend paused his set to scold his hip-hop friends who don’t put sufficient effort into their reside reveals and as an alternative depend on the group to hold them by performances.
“Don’t you hate that shit? You spend all of your cash for the fucking tickets. Pay for parking. You bought your hair did, you bought an outfit and sht. And you gotta come to the present and sing all of the fucking phrases. Come on, man. Rattling!” he vented.
“I hate performers [who spend] half the present like this,” Dice continued, mimicking an artist holding out the mic to the group for them to rap (or sing) the lyrics. “It’s some bullshit, man. I got here hear to listen to you rap, muthafucka!”
Ice Dice says he hates performers who make the group rap their lyrics for half the present.
“That’s some bulls**t, man. I got here to listen to you rap motherf*a”
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Ice Dice will not be the one rap veteran who feels this manner.
In 2023, Busta Rhymes — who’s broadly considered one in all hip-hop’s biggest showmen — slammed the pattern of rappers performing with backing tracks.
“We come from a time the place there was no components. No pointless mixing and diluting and tampering with the holy, sacred and pure,” he mentioned throughout his set at Lovers & Mates Pageant in Las Vegas. “We [are] the holy, sacred and pure.”
The next 12 months, Bus-a-Bus shifted his essential gaze to followers themselves, cursing out the group at Essence Pageant for utilizing their telephones throughout his efficiency.
“Ayo, fuck them digital camera telephones! Let’s get again to interacting like people,” he barked onstage. “Put them weird-ass gadgets down! I ain’t from that period. Them shits don’t management the soul. Fuck your cellphone!”
Singling out followers who had been seated throughout his set, Busta added: “I’ll level each final one in all y’all out till y’all asses is up!”
