Ice-T has stated he noticed a “paradigm shift” within the hip-hop scene in the course of the mid-2000s, which was when he final launched an album.
The artist’s final solo hip-hop album ‘Gangsta Rap’ got here out in 2006, along with his focus then shifting to his heavy steel band Physique Rely.
In a latest interview with Selection, Ice-T stated that the altering nature of the hip-hop scene left him feeling “uncomfortable”, and as such he has no plans to make any extra solo data at current.
“Hip-hop modified. The music obtained goofy to me. The youngsters began trying bizarre. All of it became one thing I wasn’t snug with,” he defined. “There was a degree the place I used to be promoting tons of data, then it cooled off. I felt a sure approach.
“Then I realised Public Enemy, Rakim, Large Daddy Kane and Wu-Tang Clan weren’t promoting data, both. There was a paradigm shift. These youngsters obtained softer, and comfortable will not be one thing I’m in a position to give audiences. The primary phrase in hip-hop is “hip” so how one thing stays hip for over 10 years is tough. … In addition to, I nonetheless do my ‘Ice-T: Artwork of Rap’ exhibits, which is my legacy hip-hop. Consider it like seeing Frank Sinatra. You need to hear the classics.”
Ice-T additionally mentioned not too long ago getting a star on the Hollywood Stroll Of Fame. Requested how he’d have reacted if somebody had advised him he would get one, he responded: “I’d have advised you that was unattainable.”
“Once I began making data, I didn’t come into the music enterprise pondering I’d be a star,” he continued. “I used to be simply seeing if I may get a fan base. I didn’t need to be the very best rapper. I simply needed to be talked about among the many greats: LL Cool J, Run-DMC. Getting any ‘star’ was approach out of attain.”
Ice-T confirmed earlier this week that Physique Rely had began engaged on a brand new album titled ‘Cruel’.
