In a recent interview, legendary rapper Ice-T claimed he stopped making music because newer rappers were not as hard as his generation of artists.
“Hip-hop changed,” Ice-T told Variety. “The music got goofy to me. The kids started looking weird. It all turned into something I wasn’t comfortable with. There was a point where I was selling tons of records, then it cooled off. I felt a certain way. Then I realized Public Enemy, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and Wu-Tang Clan weren’t selling records, either. There was a paradigm shift.”
Ice-T’s last project was in 2006. Since then, he’s stuck to acting.
Ice-T continued: “These kids got softer, and soft is not something I’m able to give audiences. The first word in hip-hop is ‘hip’ so how something stays hip for over 10 years is difficult. Besides, I still do my Ice-T: Art of Rap shows, which is my legacy hip-hop. Think of it like seeing Frank Sinatra. You want to hear the classics.”
Have Hip Hop artists gotten softer?
